Hi Gilles, Fae brought this up: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477 > > Clearly, mailing the hard drive would be the most efficient way of > transferring the data. If the hard drive can make it to close enough to our > data center's network, anyway, which might have security implications. Is > there any precedence to doing something like this? >
Yes, this has happened in the past. I recall André Costa from Sweden (cc-ed) did that for the LSH GLAM donation [1] but I believe there was others. Maybe Rob or Roan could tell you more on this. [1] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/LSH> Related links: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-August/067359.html> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload> -- Jean-Frédéric
_______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
