Magnus Manske wrote:
On 10/25/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
Now that we have proper support for video in MediaWiki, the upload limit of 20 MB is reached much more easily. Could this limit be increased?
<record mode="broken"> enable URL-based uploads... </record>
The resource requirements on the server side are the same, it just means the user has to have a web server. There's no reason we would should have a different limit for uploading via HTTP download than for HTTP uploads.
The system administration question is: do we have the resources and architecture to support a dramatic growth in disk space and bandwidth usage driven by large video uploads?
My tentative answer would be that I don't think we're very far ahead of the growth curve on storage. I don't know how expensive it will be or whether we will be able to deploy new hardware fast enough. Our record for deployment of storage hardware has been pretty poor.
-- Tim Starling