Dear ones,
Where might I get or mirror a dump of Commons media files?
> It seems worth mentioning on the front page of
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
> It looks like the compressed XML of the ~50M description pages is ~25GB.
> It looks like wiki-team set up a dump script that posted monthly dumps to
the internet archive; in 2013 it stopped include the month+year in the
title; in 2016 it stopped altogether.
https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
Hi,
Since several weeks or months, upload for large files is essentially broken.
It is now nearly impossible to upload a file larger than 100 MB. All file
formats are affected (PDF, TIFF, videos, etc.). Upload even failed for a 77
MB TIFF file from Internet Archive.
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292954 for details.
There has not been much feedback from developers.
However this is a serious issue and needs an urgent fix.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Maximum_file_size#Maximum_upload…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Maximum_file_size#%3E_100_MB
As consequence, a Server side upload was requested:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292769
The task is waiting for 3 weeks without action for a routine task which
should take only a very short time. I wonder if there are still developers
alive...
Instead of fancy features development, WMF budget should be used on
priority for maintaining the existing functionalities. Uploading large
files used to work very well, so why has no effort been done to fix this
bug?
Regards,
Yann Forget
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Hello everybody! A small change to the Upload Wizard is coming regarding EXIF geolocation metadata, that will inform users about the risks of sharing the geolocation of their images. You can find the whole discussion at Phabricator here: [1]
An audit conducted by the WMF Security Team earlier this year revealed that this kind of data may pose privacy risks for Wikimedia editors, as bad actors may deduce (or try to deduce) their likely location from their uploaded media.
The suggested measure to counteract this is to inform the uploader very clearly, through a note in Upload Wizard, that such geolocation metadata will be collected and made public - making it, in the end, an informed decision of the editor to upload the media or not. You can find a proposed mockup here: [2]
This change will be rolled-out in the next few days, I will keep you updated on this. I am here in case you have any questions or requests for more information.
Luca/Sannita
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sannita_(WMF)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284941
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mockup_EXIF_geolocation_warning.png
I believe I saw a recent discussion about such a (mirrorable) dump of
Commons -- where can I follow its status?
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