On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you very much for stepping in, Roan, and for
your help in the past.
That email will be very useful, I'd suggest to copy such documentation to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Handbook#Upload as well (someone
will refactor it if needed).
I think that asking the WMF to deal with conversion and hard disks is an
inherently bad idea; it's wrong enough to need server-side uploads...
Uploading to
archive.org will avoid most of the headaches which were
mentioned.
Yes, if the organizers or someone else can get the conversion done in
a timely fashion and all we have to do is download ogg files from
archive.org , that would be awesome. Still, though, what we're gonna
need but what no one ever thinks about is file description pages. We
can't just pull down files from
archive.org and upload them to Commons
without description pages and categorization and stuff.
Roan