Greetings,
Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 20:24 -0500, Samuel Klein a écrit :
< 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
I guess we have "historical" stats in the history (starting in November 2008). I agree we should track these stats (and their temporal evolution) somewhere.
I am inclined to point people to special:uploadwizard, another fine beta, even though it elides this part of the permissions process, and to encourage them to categorize uploads with a simple memorable tag.
The Upload wizard is currently suffering from critical bugs that are the reason why it's no longer advertized from the upload form. Neil Kandalgaonkar and Ryan Kaldari are currently working to resolve these bugs.
When these problems are solved, I guess the next step will be to continue to develop planned features for the UploadWizard.
The original specifications included a process to facilitate the handling of permissions, using auto-generated e-mails; I don't know if this feature is still planned.
< 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 or something.
If I remember correctly, Michael Dale has been working on a feature that splits big files into small chunks, to minimize this risk, but it's not enabled yet.