On 22 June 2015 at 18:32, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Exactly my point. J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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