2010/7/20 Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>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)