On 11 April 2013 00:29, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
As of today this falls in the category of "NO to projects depending on unconvinced maintainers". In this case the Commons maintainers. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope/Allowable_file_types If the Commons community is happy to take this format, fine. But we need to know before the deadline for accepting projects. Or you need to change your strategy.
That's just a list of formats that are enabled in the software, that are free formats. There wasn't a vote on WebM, for example - it was more like "finally!" when it became technically feasible.
- d.