Updates

As we've been in many situations in the past week, WikiPic has been in a very standard mode. We haven't worked on the architecture, and it has been empty ever since, but remember, Ferple Limited, the company behind WikiPic is still a early day project and it will be a project that will help the world and WikiPic is unfortunately our lowest on our list.

As of recently, we have started retransitioning some experiments and changes towards the WikiPic platform. We are trying to make our technology as immediate as possible, and we are already working on a bookmarklet that is intending to become really powerful, however we're still trying to get it to work with JavaScript. And, because WikiPic doesn't employ a JavaScript engineer we're going to struggle with getting this implented but as our group expands we will have more capabilities of letting JavaScript be more fluent across the WikiPic platform.

If you're extra clever, you would of seen that we had displayed our site on Flippa recently. We are in a unconfirmed transition deciding if the new buyer and WikiPic are transacting for many reasons. Selling our site will help other people improve what we have already created for WikiPic, and we know that this project is going to be successful but that time that we don't have to improve the architecture for WikiPic.

API Changes

We've added sources to our API, because people were complaining that they couldn't see where the image was externally hosted. However, we will begin to implent privacy rules as some websites have stated that they don't want hotlinking and we could end up doing exactly that. For that reason, we'll end up only providing the site URL and preventing the actual image source from appearing - this gives the same capability of finding out what type of sites, while also giving privacy to those who want it.

Regardless of the site sale, we're going to let the API still stand as long as we're in control. Remember, the 28th December 2009 at 0.00AM GMT and we'll shut it down permanently as a general source. After that, we'll either do it on an free API key basis, or through a typical per-request charge so that we can ensure that anyone can make WikiPic a part of their own application. Testing and developing is fun, but if there's any improvements you wish to have, let us know because we appreciate and do respond to regular feedback.

Image Cache

We're beginning our site phase 2, where we will begin to transition all of our improvements to the platform. Firstly, we're going to implent a cache system where uploads will be read by a token assigned to the first line of a graphic source. This helps us make it easier to process requests without having to encode the whole image, and the cache will delay our network by up to 90 hours, however this cache only applies to how we read an image, NOT an article - otherwise we wouldn't be real-time, would we? :)

SEO

If you're someone who has been researching our background on the internet, you'll see that we are already an authority website on Google. So that means articles on our platform will become priority to any other source, however we're still a long way from making WikiPic global, and for that reason we will be playing with our system and how it approaches to everyone in the coming months so that you're never let down on your travel to the image library.

Adult filtering

That's incredibly right, we're going to make a start on our adult filtering system. Behind the works, since day one, we've already been working on filtering images (hence why there's no bad images on our service, right?) and it will be under <filter> on our API that indicates 1 or 0 weither the image has been marked as adultery. It's great for image hosts that don't want to moderate their platform, and lets anyone to go automated on their platform.

Thanks!

Bilawal Hameed,

CEO/Founder of WikiPic Limited