On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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