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Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media
jbrodkin writes "Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads.
Until early 2008, the user-generated encyclopedia's primary media file server had just 2TB of total space, which was not enough to hold growing amounts of video, audio and picture files, says CTO Brian Vibber.
'For a long time, we just did not have the capacity [to handle very large media files],' he says.
Wikipedia has raised media storage from 2TB to 48TB and the limit on file uploads from 20MB to 100MB. Ultimately, Wikipedia wants to eliminate any practical size limits on uploads, potentially allowing users to post feature length, high-quality videos.
'The limits will get bigger and bigger to where it will be relatively easy for someone who has a legitimate need to upload a two-hour video of good quality,' Vibber says."
960 TByte / 1500E+6 internet users = 640 kByte
That ought to be enough for anybody.
Here's a test. Pick a subject that you are expert in, or even have a good passing knowledge of -- any subject, pick a few even. Go to the wikipedia page on that topic, and you will find inconsistencies, inaccuracies, conjecture, missing information and sometimes downright lies.
Yeah, unlike supercilious trolls such as yourself, some of us like to contribute our knowledge to the rest of the world by fixing poorly written articles, getting the facts straight and providing citations. That's the point of Wikipedia. As it grows, its accuracy and scope improves.
Every time some clown says Wikipedia is horribly inaccurate, I ask for an example. Show me where it says Charlemagne was born in 1972, or where it says that Abraham Lincoln invented the lightbulb. So what inaccuracy are you referring to? What downright lie?
The followup is, if you can show me an example, why is it still there? Why didn't you fix it?
Jerk.