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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 05:39:25PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > Kristian Oelgaard wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I was trying to upload a movie to the FEniCS wiki page, but I got the message
> > > that the size of the file was too big (file is 7+ Mb). What are the limitations
> > > and what should the format be?
> > > 
> > > I worked around it by putting the file in:
> > > 
> > > fenics-apps@xxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/www.fenics.org/pub/software/fenics-apps/fenics-plasticity/fenics-plasticity-beam.avi
> > > 
> > > and linking to it from the page:
> > > 
> > > http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FEniCS_Plasticity
> > > 
> > > where the result can be seen.
> > > 
> > > Now, for future reference what should the procedure be?
> > 
> > 
> > There is a limit on how large a file the server's PHP installation will
> > allow uploaded (can be changed by something like upload_max_filesize in
> > php.ini) and on top of that, MediaWiki imposes an artificial limit on
> > the size of files uploaded ($wgUploadSizeWarning, $wgMaxUploadSize in
> > LocalSettings.php).
> > 
> > I see two possible approaches for the future:
> > 
> > 1. Have someone with write access to the server change these variables
> > to be large enough. (Also, someone with read access to those settings
> > files can tell you what the limits currently are.)
> > 2. Have people upload movies to their own servers and just link to them
> > from the Wiki.
> > 
> > Harish
> 
> I think the current is ok, so my suggestion would be that for larger
> files, one needs to post a link (URL) to the maintainers (on the
> mailing list) and then you can just upload it to the server since you
> have write access.

I think the current *limit* is ok, so my suggestion would be that for larger
files, one needs to post a link (URL) to the maintainers (on the
mailing list) and then you can just upload it to the server since you
have write access.

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