Hello Guillaume,
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
< Q3: Do we have historical stats on the # of media files in Commons by filetype or mediatype?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:MIME_type_statistics
Nice. It looks like large tiffs, ogg video, djvu files and large jpegs are growing steadily. And those 1000 Dutch video clips make up ~12% of the current total.
I am inclined to point people to special:uploadwizard, another fine
The Upload wizard is currently suffering from critical bugs
Ok. (I think it's great... but will send people to the old form until it's done)
< Q6: do we still have that 100MB file size limit? can we change this to 500MB?
When we're talking about files this big, the problem, as I understand it, isn't really the size limit, but the fact that the bigger the file, the more likely the upload is to fail because of network flakiness
Finding a way to share/copy batches of larger files to Commons might go hand-in-hand with discussions about a quarantine/working space not intended for use directly on the projects:
In the case of OCW, we may have access to a few dozen full-length lectures, on the order of 200M each, which need to be cut up into useful clips. In the case of museum-quality images, or images being restored, there might be ultra-high-res images available in an archive, which need to be converted to a web-suitable resolution. In the case of the Paley animation stills, I believe the original archival png's from her film were rejected on upload as being too high-resolution.
SJ