Edward Z. Yang wrote:
For MediaWiki (not necessarily Wikipedia), sometimes you want to upload really big files. An HTTP upload isn't necessarily the best way to do this, especially if it's lots of really big files (tar gzip them and uplaod via ftp then telnet in and unpackage).
I dunno about the problems of large files over HTTP, but Commonist handles multiple files nicely:
http://www.djini.de/software/commonist/
It's graphical and needs Java. But presumably it would be a Simple Matter of Programming to write a command-line one in Perl or whatever.
Unfortunately, I don't think anyone's ever come up with a web-based upload interface for multiple files that doesn't suck ... if someone knows of one, I have a few people I really want to point at it!
- d.