dear all,
the wmf multimedia and operations teams have worked on several bugs that address this
issue. i have summarised the bugs i know about in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65217.
as far as i understand it, it‘s time to test another large file upload. if you have a
batch of jpgs, tiffs, pdfs, ogvs or any other accepted format over 50mb (this is an
arbitrary nr, i have no idea where the threshold is at; earlier i mentioned 10mb), please
feel free to:
1. test the upload, or a part of it, on beta:
http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:GWToolset
2. if all runs well, coordinate with #wikimedia-operations before running the batch on
production, so that they can monitor its progress. i’m not sure how much lead time they
will need, so i suggest giving them at least a day notice and then an hour right before
you run the upload.
with kind regards,
dan