Madam, Sir,
I am writing to you after being advised to do so. I am the email address behind
the Aristoxène account on Wikimedia projects, and I have started several
projects to archive/publish historical documents concerning the history of the
anarchist movement. In this capacity, I have partnered with another historian
of the movement who possesses an immense archival database that he has fully
agreed to contribute and share to Commons.
I have [started doing
this](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collection_of_Archives_Anarchistes),
but I was quickly confronted with a major issue: either I maintain the
original quality of the documents (so a police file of 1,000 pages, which is
not that rare, is around 2 GB) but in that case I am capped by Commons and the
upload speed is extremely slow (it takes +10 hours to upload); or I compile it
into DjVu and in that case it is much easier and faster, but the quality of the
documents (which are already handwritten and not always very easy to read even
in good quality) is severely impacted, making them very difficult to use.
I discussed this with a friend who does a lot of archiving work, and he told me
that it would be entirely possible to request an 'FTP' at this email address; I
don't know what that means, but here I am doing it—if I could upload faster it
would be incredible, because right now I have about 600 GB of documents and
that would take five months non-stop.
Cordially,
Aristoxène
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