I've taken the liberty of updating: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Server-side_upload
to indicate that server-side uploads are deprecated, unmaintained, and there is no guarantee that they will go through on a reasonable timeframe so people stop adding to the queue thinking it will be handled. I strongly recommend that anyone who thinks they might want to do a server-side upload should first try UploadWizard instead, which also allows uploading large files. If there are upload failures still occurring with UploadWizard, then those bugs need to be found and fixed so that everyone can self-serve all image and media uploads with no need to escalate. (As I recall we did have some failures in the past with recombining large files at the final stage of upload. If this is still a problem, then we need to fix that. I can include this in my maintenance time if we still have those to fix, especially if it will unblock users being able to self-serve these tasks!) My thanks to Yann for surfacing this, and my apologies for how bad a user experience it has been so far. We can do better. :) -- brooke On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM Brooke Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > First, note that when Tim looked at this request today the files were > missing and so it's impossible to fulfill this particular request at this > time. This is unfortunate, but that's where it is. > > Generally, I think it's fair to consider the "server-side uploads" request > system to be officially a dead-end at this point. It's not fair to expect > users to wait for someone, somewhere, sometime to run a file through the > command-line, and it's an unfair burden on those volunteers with server > access to expect them to do it. > > If there are difficulties accomplishing the uploads by the original file > creator then those actual bugs need to be prioritized and fixed so > self-serve uploads work for these cases. > > --brooke > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 10:35 AM Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I opened https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378451 on Oct 29, 2024, and >> it still has not been taken care of. I find it really not acceptable for >> such a simple request not to be answered for so long. >> Yann Forget >> -- >> +33-780 60 90 42 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/OFDB5JENOH2GNPKKSGFNUULSR4TJ4WEW/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > >
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