On 10/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I just tried uploading a 12MB TIFF (a scan directly from the Library of Congress) to Commons. It waited until the whole 12MB had uploaded, of course, to tell me it didn't want it.
- Is there any reason TIFF is off the allowed media types list?
Tiff doesn't offer much which isn't supported equally or better by another format we accept.
Tiff is a grab-bag format... it can be a lot of different things, including things that we clearly don't want, and a lot of things that a lot of tools don't read.
What is the 12MB tiff actually of? If it's a photograph, it should probably be made into a jpeg. If it's a 1bpp scanned document it should be probably converted into a djvu.
- Is there any way for the software to say "no" earlier in the
process of making a huge upload?
We really should have a good upload client which can not only help reject files early, but which could help users convert files, and walk users through the steps of providing all the right metadata. Commonist is almost that, but not quite. :)