On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:06 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 June 2015 at 16:25, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Where in this new process could someone hook in a widget that catches >> attempts to upload proprietary formats, and sends the file behind the >> scenes to Internet Archive for transcoding? >> > Ha. Well, that's an awkward policy question (and so my responsibility) > wrapped inside a technical one (and so Mark's). :-) > > I'm sure that such a hook could already be written for UploadWizard, > though ideally it'd be done properly with a type handler; the transcoding > effort, however, would mean that we would not store the original, so > there'd need to be a challenging community discussion about whether > retaining the original was important. It'd also be a pretty fragile system > compared to doing the transcoding ourselves, without significant moral, > ethical or legal gains as far as I can see, so I'd need to be convinced > that it was worth spending so much effort on. But "inside it somewhere" > isn't a great answer, I'm afraid. > That discussion already happened, see Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_an_allowable_free_file_format <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Must_be_an_allowable_free_file_format> and Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video> - there are strong objections to storing or transcoding originals files which have a proprietary format, at least in the current legal and policy landscape.
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