On 23/11/2007, Jastrow jastrow@pip-pip.org wrote:
I agree adding DNG to our list of supported file types would be a good thing but I seriously doubt that it will bring Commons more high resolution files. It would be more useful, I think, to educate our users not to downsample, and so on.
I don't see why we can't do both those things?
There are a few dozen, maybe as many as 100, regular, highly valuable contributors who likely do shoot RAW and would upload RAW files as an archival record if nothing else, if we gave them the opportunity. That's not a great number but it will rise in time.
I brought this issue up because someone brought it up on the VP, and [[commons talk:file types]]. I wasn't aware until then that we had a suitable RAW format, ie open standard. Now that we do (? no one has raised any objections?), I believe it would be of great benefit to the project to give people the option to be able to upload this format if they wish.
Anyway I think we both arrive at the same conclusion. :)
cheers Brianna