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Multimedia

A picture can say more than, say, several Wikipedia articles. It is rather trivial. I think that Wikipedia without pictures, video, and audio is not a real encyclopedia. I wonder if you think my propositions worthwhile : AudioWikipedia, PhotoWikipedia, VideoWikipedia - pages that can be linked from the real Wikipedias but having only a title and Talk pages.

Agreed, agreed, agreed. What we need, essentially, is an upload tool that lets us post images onto the wikipedia site. This opens many benefits but also some cans of worms, so this is not a trivial request.

I've written file upload systems several times over the years, and I'm about to need to do yet another one at work. I will *tentatively* offer to volunteer to provide something that can be plugged into wikipedia to do file uploads, if Larry and Jason give the go ahead for it. It may be a few months, if at all, before I can have it ready, though.

Until then, is there any reason why we couldn't use FTP to upload images? An anonymous FTP account allowing us to upload to, say, www.wikipedia.com/images would do the trick, and we could simply link the pictures from there.