In an ideal world, where we wouldn't have problems with disk and backup requirements, 40 mb is still a very low maximum. I have lots of videos from the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 which last over an hour and are impossible to compress to a size under 40mb. The original DV files are around a 10 GB per hour and can be compressed to a reasonable quality for about 1GB per hour. To host these (freely licensed and relevant files) i now have to either upload them to a local server or rely on services like archive.org or YouTube.
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12595 12595 Increase Commons file size upload limit to 40MB
cheers, Brianna.
On 23/04/2008, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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