On 11 April 2013 00:29, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As of today this falls in the category of "NO to
projects depending on
unconvinced maintainers". In this case the Commons maintainers.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Allowable_file_types
If the Commons community is happy to take this format, fine. But we need to
know before the deadline for accepting projects. Or you need to change your
strategy.
That's just a list of formats that are enabled in the software, that
are free formats. There wasn't a vote on WebM, for example - it was
more like "finally!" when it became technically feasible.
- d.