On Aug 28, 2013 9:42 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" <pbeaudette@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It seems as though we have this conversation every year. :-)
>
> If someone provides the WMF with a hard drive, we have usually arranged for the videos to be directly uploaded at the data center, bypassing any FTP madness. I presume ops would be willing to do so again. 

Part of the problem seems to be that people are discussing 2 completely separate questions (raw, unedited, HD quality size vs. compressed+encoded size). People are then conflating these questions (and apparently not everyone realizes that there's even multiple questions in the thread).

(also, file size is extra irrelevant for end users with slow or capped pipes because transcoding to various sizes/formats happens on the WMF cluster server side)

The WMF is prepared to receive files which are all ready for import to commons (complete with corresponding initial contents for each description page). and sometimes that means HDD in snail mail or giving someone an HTTP URL to download from. (but that should be less common with chunked uploads now available to upload wizard and bots)

They are however, *not* prepared to receive and process unedited+raw HD video. (apparently some of the files are still at this stage)

-Jeremy