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State benefit(s) of chunked uploading in preference
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Right now, the English text is, "Chunked uploads for files over 1MB in Upload Wizard". Besides the size being wrong according to T61906, it doesn't really give the user any reason to check the box.

My understanding (see e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Maximum_file_size) is that it raises the upload size limit to 1000 MB. That's a key user-visible change, and should be mentioned (ideally using a parameter).

I think it's also meant to allow more reliable uploads (may not worth mentioning at least while it's considered "experimental").

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(In reply to comment #0)
I think it's also meant to allow more reliable uploads (may not worth

mentioning at least while it's considered "experimental").

Its meant to. In practise it is significantly less reliable than normal uploads.

Change 256715 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkTraceur):
Add maximum file sizes to chunked preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/256715

Change 256715 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add maximum file sizes to chunked preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/256715

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