Can we look into enabling $wgAllowCopyUploads on Wikimedia projects?
This will let Wikimedia work a lot better with external archives
especial around large video files that are cumbersome for users to
download and then upload over our POST upload interface on home Internet
connections. In particular
archive.org huge repository of public domain
and free licensed footage now support temporal urls for video:
http://metavid.org/blog/2008/12/08/archiveorg-ogg-support/
not to mention adding some clips from metavid's public domain
legislative collection to relevant articles ;)
As I understand we need to set up a proxy for the internal apache nodes
to access the outside web? Who can look at enabling this?
peace,
--michael