AFAIK, the Commons app is indeed abandoned by WMF. The problem is that
allowing resumable uploads requires changes on the server side as well, not
just the app or browser.
While the Commons server supports "chunked uploads"[1], that still doesn't
solve the problem of trying to upload a modest (say 1MB) photo on a choppy
1x connection. It seems to me that market forces and economic development
efforts will gradually improve speeds in Africa, and our the best hope for
alleviation of this problem. :(
A.
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chunked_uploads
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> wrote:
On 02.12.2014 23:01, Kasper Souren wrote:
While trying to upload some pictures to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Afripedia_Douala I'm
starting to understand at least one part of the issue. Internet
connections are really bad. Very high ping times, both at the French
institute as well as in the hotel I'm staying in now, which I can't
easily consider cheap (at least in terms of pricing).
Is there a robust way to upload pictures to Commons over bad internet
connections?
No AFAIK. Revamping the Commons app should be one of tech. priority to
increase involvement in Africa. But, this is not a priority at the WMF
AFAIK, so we should find a way to work on this.
Emmanuel
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