On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Brion
Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In addition to being able to handle large files
without an ugly manual
download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for
future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media
picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr,
Archive.org, and
other places.
The way I wrote the URL upload back in the day would make it an entry
point for POST-style uploads from third-party tools. I hope that still
works - it might ease mass "single shot" uploads from people or groups
who want to push an existing set of their files over to Commons.
This is how Michael Dale's ongoing work with a media-add wizard is
currently using it, though he's been talking about adding an API
interface for it too.
-- brion