2008/4/23 Graham Pearce grahamwp@jazi.net:
I'd like the upload limit to be raised to at least 40MB. I'd like to upload some free classical music from Pandora Music that is more than 20MB and cannot be split easily without a loss in quality. For example: http://music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/pandora/vorbis/chamber_orchestra/MAR... http://music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/pandora/vorbis/piano/Goldstein/Varia...
I am aware of the message in October 2007 to this list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2007-October/034344.htm...
Has much changed since then?
I think this is desperately needed. There are plenty of audio files larger than 20MB (such as read articles, other spoken files, classical music, historical recordings) that could instantly be uploaded, there are many, many more video files larger than 20MB that could be uploaded (historical, scientific, educational, &c.). Also, TIFFs which are important for historical and scientific documentation and archive often exceed 20MB. Related to the use of TIFFs, lossless audio formats which would be useful for Commons almost necessarily exceed 20MB.
Other archived threads relating to this (the start of the thread is linked): *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2005-February/015276.ht... *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2005-July/018426.html *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2006-August/025825.html *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2007-October/034367.htm... *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikitech-l/2007-November/035162.ht...
*https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/commons-l/2006-August/000566.html [see 2006-August in Wikitech-l] *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/commons-l/2006-November/000905.htm... *https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/commons-l/2007-November/003145.htm...