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Uploading large files
Revision as of 16:28, 9 October 2015 by imported>Alex Monk (add note about $https_proxy)
Per [1] the maximum file size is 4GiB.
Download the files to terbium (or if there's not enough space, tin) with http_proxy=webproxy.eqiad.wmnet:8080 (or https_proxy for https requests)
(url-downloader.wikimedia.org:8080 has a limit just under 1GB - see [2])
mwscript importImages.php --wiki=commonswiki --comment-ext=txt --user=USERNAME /tmp/uploads