On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Jean-Frédéric <jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

This is not a new issue, as this is the same functionality we have provided for years on the File: page. But Media Viewer makes it a lot easier for users to accidentally load a huge file. So I think we should seriously consider providing a warning, if it is easy to implement and if we can identify a threshold that is based on data and that is acceptable to our communities.

See [[bugzilla:29967]], “ Better support for viewing and downloading large files” <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29967>

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Jean-Fred

Ah, great, thanks for the link, Jean-Fred. In the back of my mind I thought I'd seen something about this on Bugzilla.

As I pointed out in a meeting an on-wiki and this bug confirms, this is a problem that exists for viewing large files in general, not just Media Viewer, so I'd like to make sure that the solution is practical for the file page as well and not just put together because there was a problem with Media Viewer. The bug is a big enough issue outside of Media Viewer that it deserves the attention.

Keegan Peterzell

Community Liaison, Product

Wikimedia Foundation