2010/7/20 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se:
Time and again, the 100 MB limit on file uploads is a problem, in particular for multipage documents (scanned books) in PDF or Djvu, and for video files in OGV.
What are the plans for increasing this limit? Would it be possible to allow 500 MB or 1 GB for these file formats, and maintain the lower limit for other formats?
There is support for chunked uploading in MediaWiki core, but it's disabled for security reasons AFAIK. With chunked uploading, you're uploading your file in chunks of 1 MB, which means that the impact of failure for large uploads is vastly reduced (if a chunk fails, you just reupload that chunk) and that progress bars can be implemented. This does need client-side support, e.g. using the Firefogg extension for Firefox or a bot framework that knows about chunked uploads. This probably means the upload limit can be raised, but don't quote me on that.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)