On that note, it would be good to collect which unsupported extensions people are trying to upload. Statistics about that would tell us what new format support would have the biggest impact.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > a dashboard is available now: > > http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/uw > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UploadWizard/Funnel_analysis > > Very nice. > > > The situation haven't changed since June: upload attempts > > fail with an embarrassingly high frequency > > I would guess a lot of this is due to "DOES NOT ACCEPT FILENAMES THAT > END IN <foo>". This blocks many of my uploads (spreadsheets, bio > molecules, map routes, 3D images). Others I try to upload in a > not-accepted format (e.g., odf, epub) before going and transcoding > them. > > IMO we should accept all free-format files on upload, even if after > acceptance we notify the uploader that they are held in a quarantine > area for sanitizing/processing. If that is too hard, we could create > a stub page on upload that points to an Internet Archive page where > their file has been uploaded. Either would feel like partial success > in using the upload form. > > Sam > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Unsupported_file_types > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >
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