Madam, Sir,
I am writing to you after being advised to do so. I am the email address behind the Aristoxène account on Wikimedia projects, and I have started several projects to archive/publish historical documents concerning the history of the anarchist movement. In this capacity, I have partnered with another historian of the movement who possesses an immense archival database that he has fully agreed to contribute and share to Commons.
I have [started doing this](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_Archives_Anarchist...), but I was quickly confronted with a major issue: either I maintain the original quality of the documents (so a police file of 1,000 pages, which is not that rare, is around 2 GB) but in that case I am capped by Commons and the upload speed is extremely slow (it takes +10 hours to upload); or I compile it into DjVu and in that case it is much easier and faster, but the quality of the documents (which are already handwritten and not always very easy to read even in good quality) is severely impacted, making them very difficult to use.
I discussed this with a friend who does a lot of archiving work, and he told me that it would be entirely possible to request an 'FTP' at this email address; I don't know what that means, but here I am doing it—if I could upload faster it would be incredible, because right now I have about 600 GB of documents and that would take five months non-stop.
Cordially, Aristoxène
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Hi,
according to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload UploadWizard should support file uploads with a file size up to 5GB.
I don't think that setting up some FTP server (FTP is another protocol, like "HTTPS", but rather dated) is a good idea how to spend your time.
The link above lists some available options.
HTH, andre
On Fri, 2025-11-21 at 08:51 +0000, Hipparchiaa via Wikitech-l wrote:
Madam, Sir, I am writing to you after being advised to do so. I am the email address behind the Aristoxène account on Wikimedia projects, and I have started several projects to archive/publish historical documents concerning the history of the anarchist movement. In this capacity, I have partnered with another historian of the movement who possesses an immense archival database that he has fully agreed to contribute and share to Commons. I have started doing this, but I was quickly confronted with a major issue: either I maintain the original quality of the documents (so a police file of 1,000 pages, which is not that rare, is around 2 GB) but in that case I am capped by Commons and the upload speed is extremely slow (it takes +10 hours to upload); or I compile it into DjVu and in that case it is much easier and faster, but the quality of the documents (which are already handwritten and not always very easy to read even in good quality) is severely impacted, making them very difficult to use. I discussed this with a friend who does a lot of archiving work, and he told me that it would be entirely possible to request an 'FTP' at this email address; I don't know what that means, but here I am doing it—if I could upload faster it would be incredible, because right now I have about 600 GB of documents and that would take five months non- stop. Cordially, Aristoxène
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Hi,
I thank you very much, I think the best is to do manually maybe, idk - I downloaded and started using VicunaUploader which seems to work - taking probably the same amount of time but at least allowing me to not have the 'onglet' on the browser having to be constantly opened (and thus hugely restricting my possibility of action). I will see how it goes and contact oyu back.
Cordially,
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On Friday, November 21st, 2025 at 11:23, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
according to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload UploadWizard should support file uploads with a file size up to 5GB.
I don't think that setting up some FTP server (FTP is another protocol, like "HTTPS", but rather dated) is a good idea how to spend your time.
The link above lists some available options.
HTH, andre
On Fri, 2025-11-21 at 08:51 +0000, Hipparchiaa via Wikitech-l wrote:
Madam, Sir, I am writing to you after being advised to do so. I am the email address behind the Aristoxène account on Wikimedia projects, and I have started several projects to archive/publish historical documents concerning the history of the anarchist movement. In this capacity, I have partnered with another historian of the movement who possesses an immense archival database that he has fully agreed to contribute and share to Commons. I have started doing this, but I was quickly confronted with a major issue: either I maintain the original quality of the documents (so a police file of 1,000 pages, which is not that rare, is around 2 GB) but in that case I am capped by Commons and the upload speed is extremely slow (it takes +10 hours to upload); or I compile it into DjVu and in that case it is much easier and faster, but the quality of the documents (which are already handwritten and not always very easy to read even in good quality) is severely impacted, making them very difficult to use. I discussed this with a friend who does a lot of archiving work, and he told me that it would be entirely possible to request an 'FTP' at this email address; I don't know what that means, but here I am doing it—if I could upload faster it would be incredible, because right now I have about 600 GB of documents and that would take five months non- stop. Cordially, Aristoxène
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