Can we look into enabling $wgAllowCopyUploads on Wikimedia projects?

This will let Wikimedia work a lot better with external archives 
especial around large video files that are cumbersome for users to 
download and then upload over our POST upload interface on home Internet 
connections. In particular archive.org huge repository of public domain 
and free licensed footage now support temporal urls for video: 
http://metavid.org/blog/2008/12/08/archiveorg-ogg-support/
not to mention adding some clips from metavid's public domain 
legislative collection to relevant articles ;)

As I understand we need to set up a proxy for the internal apache nodes 
to access the outside web? Who can look at enabling this?

peace,
--michael

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