On 1/28/09 8:57 AM, Michael Dale wrote:

Revising the $wgAllowCopyUploads request ... The thread ended here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-January/040942.html

Any updates on this;

I'm poking poor Mark about it. :)

(And dude, I'm sitting right next to you. ;)

or ideas on how we could support client initiated importing of media assets over http?

I don't think that can be done without a browser plugin, and it would be kinda crappy anyway -- the poor client would be using up both their upstream and downstream bandwidth for the whole file.

-- brion