[Mediawiki-l] "Cleanest" way to restrict size of uploaded files?

[Ken McDonald]

Reading through the MW documentation, it seems that the preferred way to 
restrict the size of files that may be uploaded is to either modify the 
Apache setup, or to modify the basic PHP setup. However, this doesn't 
seem very clean to me--I assume it would affect all uploads (if using 
Apache), or all uploads via PHP (if PHP setup is modified), not just 
uploads to the MW site. Plus it requires going into stuff I'm not 
familiar with :-). Plus it seems it might involve restarting the server, 
always an undesirable prospect.

It would seem that .../includes/SpecialUpload.php would be an obvious 
place to make a mod to restrict file size, but I can't see any place for 
an easy "hook". (Please be aware that my only intro to PHP so far has 
been MediaWiki :-) ). Is this a good place to try a mod? Or can others 
suggest a better solution?

Thanks,
Ken