Hello, Platonides wrote: > I was thinking on a FTP server where you log in with your wiki > credentials and get to a private temporary folder. You can view pending > files, delete, rename, append and create new ones (you can't read them > though, to avoid being used as a sharing service). > You are given a quota so you could upload a few large files or many > small ones. Files get deleted after X time untouched. > When you go to the page name it would have on the wiki there's a message > reminding you of a pending upload an inviting you to finish it, where > you get the normal upload fields. After transferring, the file gets > public and you are returned the file size quota. > Having a specific protocol for uploads also allow to store them directly > on the storage nodes, instead of writing them via nfs from the apaches.
Internet Archive has such a system, so it might worth asking them rather than reinventing hot water. http://www.archive.org/services/contrib-submit.php (for simpler cases), or http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php (for more complex ones) (Adding files to an existing item might make this a "more complex" case, requiring use of replacing=1 or update_mode=1.) Information on use of http://www.archive.org/services/contrib-submit.php is available at: http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php and information on use of http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php is available at: http://www.us.archive.org/contrib_submit.php?help=1 Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
