With the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chunked_uploads enabled, users can currently upload files up to 500MB, when using a supported browser (e.g. a current Firefox or Chrome).
I think Daniel's question was about how to make this method work for a bot too, i.e. via the API rather than in a browser. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:52 PM, OQ <[email protected]> wrote: > I would assume given the previous reply that regardless of upload method, > chunked or otherwise, there is still the hard limit of how big the > resultant file can be. > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jun 25, 2013 5:44 PM, "Daniel Mietchen" <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> > my bot[1] occasionally stumbles upon files that are above 100MB and >> > thus does not upload them[2]. What do I have to do to get it set up >> > for handling these files too? >> >> this looks like the relevant section: >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Upload#Chunked_uploading >> >> I don't know the current settings; you might need to enable chunked uploads >> in the MediaWiki prefs for the user you're uploading as. >> >> -Jeremy >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
