For use in both the external media wizard http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-January/040858.html

and the firefogg in-browser transcoder & up-loader /with progress bar/: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16927 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040524.html

We could really use the addition of file uploading support to the API. This would also be helpful for cell phone image type applications no?

Is there anyone actively looking into such a development? Any tips if I take that on?

peace, --michael