2010/7/20 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>:
> Time and again, the 100 MB limit on file uploads is a problem,
> in particular for multipage documents (scanned books) in PDF
> or Djvu, and for video files in OGV.
>
> What are the plans for increasing this limit? Would it be
> possible to allow 500 MB or 1 GB for these file formats,
> and maintain the lower limit for other formats?
>
There is support for chunked uploading in MediaWiki core, but it's
disabled for security reasons AFAIK. With chunked uploading, you're
uploading your file in chunks of 1 MB, which means that the impact of
failure for large uploads is vastly reduced (if a chunk fails, you
just reupload that chunk) and that progress bars can be implemented.
This does need client-side support, e.g. using the Firefogg extension
for Firefox or a bot framework that knows about chunked uploads. This
probably means the upload limit can be raised, but don't quote me on
that.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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