Hello Guillaume,
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<gpaumier(a)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