In an ideal world, where we wouldn't have problems with disk and
backup requirements, 40 mb is still a very low maximum. I have lots of
videos from the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2007 which last over
an hour and are impossible to compress to a size under 40mb. The
original DV files are around a 10 GB per hour and can be compressed to
a reasonable quality for about 1GB per hour. To host these (freely
licensed and relevant files) i now have to either upload them to a
local server or rely on services like
archive.org or YouTube.
-- Hay / Husky
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bugzilla:
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12595>
12595 Increase Commons file size upload limit to 40MB
cheers,
Brianna.
On 23/04/2008, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is desperately needed. There are
plenty of audio files
larger than 20MB (such as read articles, other spoken files, classical
music, historical recordings) that could instantly be uploaded, there
are many, many more video files larger than 20MB that could be
uploaded (historical, scientific, educational, &c.). Also, TIFFs which
are important for historical and scientific documentation and archive
often exceed 20MB. Related to the use of TIFFs, lossless audio formats
which would be useful for Commons almost necessarily exceed 20MB.
--
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http://modernthings.org/
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