Dear all,
Wikimedia Commons has a feature called "sideloading" or "copy upload". It means that you can provide Wikimedia Commons with a link to a media file and the wiki would download it from there and import it into Commons, just like a regular upload.
This is especially useful for bigger files as it allow much bigger files (1 GB at the moment). Until today this could only be used via the API, so an external tool was neccessary to trigger such a sideloading process.
Now you can use this feature right from the upload form https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
Note there are still some hurdles: * sideloading is only allowed for users of the groups "Image Reviewer" or "GW Toolset User" - experienced Commoners uploading regularly it shouldn't be a problem to get that
* sideloading is only allowed from certain domains - as a security feature - if you want to use your own server regularly you need to report a bug to get your domain activated as well
* sideloading takes some time - dependant on the bandwidth between the two servers. After one minute any request to Wikimedia Commons will be aborted. If the download has not finished within that minute, the upload fails. There is a experimental feature which allows such processes to run in the background and I am working to get that activated on Commons as well:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72531
If you want a simple script to do "chunked uploads" up to 1 GB you can use my php library: * https://github.com/masterssystems/phpapibot
check examples/upload for a ready to use script
Regards,
Manuel
Nice! How do one know what domains are allowed?
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2014-10-28 21:00 GMT+01:00 Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch:
Dear all,
Wikimedia Commons has a feature called "sideloading" or "copy upload". It means that you can provide Wikimedia Commons with a link to a media file and the wiki would download it from there and import it into Commons, just like a regular upload.
This is especially useful for bigger files as it allow much bigger files (1 GB at the moment). Until today this could only be used via the API, so an external tool was neccessary to trigger such a sideloading process.
Now you can use this feature right from the upload form https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload
Note there are still some hurdles:
- sideloading is only allowed for users of the groups "Image Reviewer"
or "GW Toolset User" - experienced Commoners uploading regularly it shouldn't be a problem to get that
- sideloading is only allowed from certain domains - as a security
feature - if you want to use your own server regularly you need to report a bug to get your domain activated as well
- sideloading takes some time - dependant on the bandwidth between the
two servers. After one minute any request to Wikimedia Commons will be aborted. If the download has not finished within that minute, the upload fails. There is a experimental feature which allows such processes to run in the background and I am working to get that activated on Commons as well:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72531
If you want a simple script to do "chunked uploads" up to 1 GB you can use my php library:
check examples/upload for a ready to use script
Regards,
Manuel
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch
Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
Hej Jan,
Am 28.10.2014 21:14, schrieb Jan Ainali:
Nice! How do one know what domains are allowed?
you can see it in the config file:
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
search for wgCopyUploadsDomains and then check the entries underneath commonswiki.
/Manuel
Thanks. Is it expected that "experienced Commoners" know that? Or can the user friendliness be enhanced in some way?
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se
2014-10-28 21:30 GMT+01:00 Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch:
Hej Jan,
Am 28.10.2014 21:14, schrieb Jan Ainali:
Nice! How do one know what domains are allowed?
you can see it in the config file:
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
search for wgCopyUploadsDomains and then check the entries underneath commonswiki.
/Manuel
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch
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