Community Wishlist/Wishes/Add chunked uploading to Special:Upload
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Add chunked uploading to Special:Upload
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Description
There are currently several ways to upload files within Wikimedia; Special:Upload, Special:UploadWizard, UploadDialog, Upload a new version and the ChunkedUpload Commons JS utility. Each of these have their respective use cases, benefits and downsides.
I'd like to propose adding Chunked uploading to Special:Upload and further unifying the underlying APIs and backend used by these other tools.
This has the following benefits:
- Special:Upload would gain the ability to upload files over 100MB
- Upload a new version link, would gain the ability to upload files over 100MB. This would almost eliminate the need for Common's custom ChunkedUploading JS tool
- All WMF wikis, not just the by WMF oft neglected Wikimedia Commons would be able to use chunked uploading
- Sites/3rd party users without Special:UploadWizard gain the ability to handle larger file uploads. This strengthens MediaWiki as a platform for ALL users.
- Reduces the complexity for users. You will not need to think as much about which tool supports which files.
- Chunked uploading will be used more often, but in a less complicated environment than Special:UploadWizard. This makes it much easier and more likely that WMF/devs can detect and debug issues with the chunked upload flow.
- We can further centralise all the retry and resumption logic among Special:Upload, UploadDialog and Special:UploadWizard and make them better testable.
- Better and consistent usage in addition to more documentation of our capabilities makes it easier for 3rd party tools to provide bulk upload tooling, which is another widely desired community wish.
- Would be a good followup project to the work that is happening right now for UploadWizard. The knowledge about these topics will be present again with WMF, so lets' use that built up skill.
- Might provide opportunity to Codex'ify the Special:Upload form and make other minor long overdue improvements to it's UI.
Downside:
- More non-advanced users might succeed at uploading files, which might require more review of files
Additional requirements:
- Basic form fallback remains in place for Special:Upload to retain capability to upload without JS being enabled.
- Chunked JS upload is only used for uploads over 100MB
Assigned focus area
Type of wish
System change
Related projects
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource
3rd party wikis
Affected users
uploaders of files within WMF wikis and those outside