On Aug 28, 2013 9:42 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
It seems as though we have this conversation every
year. :-)
If someone provides the WMF with a hard drive, we have usually arranged
for the
videos to be directly uploaded at the data center, bypassing any
FTP madness. I presume ops would be willing to do so again.
Part of the problem seems to be that people are discussing 2 completely
separate questions (raw, unedited, HD quality size vs. compressed+encoded
size). People are then conflating these questions (and apparently not
everyone realizes that there's even multiple questions in the thread).
(also, file size is extra irrelevant for end users with slow or capped
pipes because transcoding to various sizes/formats happens on the WMF
cluster server side)
The WMF is prepared to receive files which are all ready for import to
commons (complete with corresponding initial contents for each description
page). and sometimes that means HDD in snail mail or giving someone an HTTP
URL to download from. (but that should be less common with chunked uploads
now available to upload wizard and bots)
They are however, *not* prepared to receive and process unedited+raw HD
video. (apparently some of the files are still at this stage)
-Jeremy