On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:35:42 +0200, Pau Giner <pginer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Interesting. I'm not sure if our upload backend people are on this list
(mostly Aaron and Filippo take care of it). You might want to forward it
to them.
I wonder if the disk space savings for us would be worth the engineering
time. It probably was for Dropbox (if the 22% reduction saves them
"multiple petabytes of space"), but we "only" have terabytes of JPG
images
(most of them on Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics), and hard
disks are not that expensive. I'm not really qualified to judge, though :)
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Bartosz Dziewoński