Hi Brion,
Multimedia WMF and Community Liaisons are still hashing out the details of
a thorough launch for MP3. Please don't turn MP3 upload on yet :)
See the Phabricator task below for updates. Long story short: yes we will
enable MP3 but we also need an improved plan for automated copyvio
detection (for reasons beyond just MP3 on Commons) and we are aiming to
help the community develop that.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176781
Thanks,
Ramsey
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [Multimedia] MP3 update
To: Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Team <multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I'm planning to push MP3 audio output support soon, which should get audio
playback working on iOS devices where the ogv.js shim doesn't load yet.
Feel free to ask, answer, or comment at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Addi
ng_MP3_audio_output_for_iOS_compatibility
Since earlier discussion on MP3 upload was pretty positive and tools folks
like Dispenser say scanning them for copyvios is not a problem, I'd like to
push on enabling the upload soon too.
Both should be simple cases of switching the defaults on from off.
-- brion