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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