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."

Comments

Wikipedia=new on-line data repository

[prgrmr]

Do you have a large video but don't want to consume your desktop hard drive with it? Just write an article about it and post it all to Wikipedia.

Re:Wikipedia=new on-line data repository

[Abstrackt]

[citation needed]

Re:I can only imagine how bad the edit wars will b

[MightyMartian]

I eagerly await the update to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_positions