[Wikipedia-l] Multimedia and file uploads

[Stephen Gilbert]

>> Multimedia
>> 
>> A picture can say more than, say, several Wikipedia articles.
>> It is rather trivial.
>> I think that Wikipedia without pictures, video, and audio is not a
>> real encyclopedia.
>> I wonder if you think my propositions worthwhile :
>> AudioWikipedia, PhotoWikipedia, VideoWikipedia - pages that can be
>> linked from the real Wikipedias but having only a title and Talk
>> pages.
>
>Agreed, agreed, agreed.  What we need, essentially, is an upload tool
>that lets us post images onto the wikipedia site.  This opens many
>benefits but also some cans of worms, so this is not a trivial request.  
>
>I've written file upload systems several times over the years, and I'm
>about to need to do yet another one at work.  I will *tentatively* offer
>to volunteer to provide something that can be plugged into wikipedia to
>do file uploads, if Larry and Jason give the go ahead for it.  It may be
>a few months, if at all, before I can have it ready, though.  
>

Until then, is there any reason why we couldn't use FTP to upload images?
An anonymous FTP account allowing us to upload to, say,
www.wikipedia.com/images would do the trick, and we could simply link the
pictures from there.