On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you very much for stepping in, Roan, and for your help in the past. > That email will be very useful, I'd suggest to copy such documentation to > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Handbook#Upload as well (someone > will refactor it if needed). > I think that asking the WMF to deal with conversion and hard disks is an > inherently bad idea; it's wrong enough to need server-side uploads... > Uploading to archive.org will avoid most of the headaches which were > mentioned. > Yes, if the organizers or someone else can get the conversion done in a timely fashion and all we have to do is download ogg files from archive.org , that would be awesome. Still, though, what we're gonna need but what no one ever thinks about is file description pages. We can't just pull down files from archive.org and upload them to Commons without description pages and categorization and stuff.
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