On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
40MB is useless, almost as useless as 20MB. I'd like to see it increased to 1GB, but structured as an unprivileged temporary drop-box on a separate server with trusted user intervention required to get it from there to the wiki.
That seems like a sensible idea. So, this would happen if you would upload files larger than a certain size? I might imagine that it would also be handy to offer alternatives to uploading by HTTP to the 'drop-box server', such as FTP or maybe SFTP. Even though uploading via HTTP seems to be very common these days you still have the problem that you might accidentally close the browser window after uploading 95% of your 1GB YouTube movie :)
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