On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
a dashboard is available now: http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/uw
Very nice.
The situation haven't changed since June: upload attempts fail with an embarrassingly high frequency
I would guess a lot of this is due to "DOES NOT ACCEPT FILENAMES THAT END IN <foo>". This blocks many of my uploads (spreadsheets, bio molecules, map routes, 3D images). Others I try to upload in a not-accepted format (e.g., odf, epub) before going and transcoding them.
IMO we should accept all free-format files on upload, even if after acceptance we notify the uploader that they are held in a quarantine area for sanitizing/processing. If that is too hard, we could create a stub page on upload that points to an Internet Archive page where their file has been uploaded. Either would feel like partial success in using the upload form.
Sam
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Unsupported_file_types