Brion Vibber wrote: > I've enabled a test configuration of MediaWiki's upload-by-URL ability > on http://test.wikipedia.org/ > > The default configuration limits URL uploads to sysops, so for now > you’ll need to be a sysop on Test Wikipedia to try it out. If everything > seems fairly problem-free we’ll start rolling this out a bit more widely > for Commons and other sites. > > In addition to being able to handle large files without an ugly manual > download+reupload, the upload-by-URL functionality is also needed for > future-facing work Michael Dale is working on to allow an on-wiki media > picker to fetch freely-licensed files from Flickr, Archive.org, and > other places. > > We may want to consider improvements to UI and workflow, but it seems to > at least work. :) > > More at the Wikimedia technical blog: > http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/03/upload-by-url-for-testwikipediaorg/ > > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >
Recieved this when trying to upload a non-existant image: "The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again." It could probably say a nicer message if the image does not exist, if it gets a 404. X! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
