On that note, it would be good to collect which unsupported extensions people are trying to upload. Statistics about that would tell us what new format support would have the biggest impact.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:

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
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard/Funnel_analysis

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

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