[Wikitech-l] enable $wgAllowCopyUploads on wikimedia projects?

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Dale
Can we look into enabling $wgAllowCopyUploads on Wikimedia projects? This will let Wikimedia work a lot better with external archives especial around large video files that are cumbersome for users to download and then upload over our POST upload interface on home Internet connections. In parti

Re: [Wikitech-l] enable $wgAllowCopyUploads on wikimedia projects?

2009-01-09 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/9/09 8:46 AM, Michael Dale wrote: > Can we look into enabling $wgAllowCopyUploads on Wikimedia projects? > > This will let Wikimedia work a lot better with external archives > especial around large video files that are cumbersome for users to > download and then upload over our POST upload int

Re: [Wikitech-l] enable $wgAllowCopyUploads on wikimedia projects?

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Dale
hmm... I think we will run into this same issue with adding inline remote repository searching if we don't want clients doing the injection of remote search results data under the wikimedia domains. Maybe we have a white list of foreign repositories? managed similar to the blacklist of spam?