On 1/9/09 8:46 AM, Michael Dale wrote: > 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?
Been talking w/ Mark & Rob about this. We're a bit leery generally of having a proxy-to-whole-internet but that seems to be the only way to do it really. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
