I've enabled a test configuration of
MediaWiki's upload-by-URL ability
on
http://test.wikipedia.org/
The default configuration limits URL uploads to sysops, so for now
you’ll need to be a sysop on Test Wikipedia to try it out. If everything
seems fairly problem-free we’ll start rolling this out a bit more widely
for Commons and other sites.
In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual
download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for
future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media
picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr,
Archive.org, and
other places.
We may want to consider improvements to UI and workflow, but it seems to
at least work. :)
More at the Wikimedia technical blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/upload-by-url-for-testwikipediaorg/
-- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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Recieved this when trying to upload a non-existant image:
"The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the
file and upload again."
It could probably say a nicer message if the image does not exist, if it
gets a 404.
X!