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Latest comment:
3 months ago
by XRay in topic
FAILED ...
Screenshot of the script's main dialog
Help
Gist: Helps you to get done with individual, huge uploads.
This script is intended to be used by power users who want to overwrite or upload new files over a slow connection, in relation to the file size. It assumes its users know or can imagine what a chunk, a byte, the upload stash and an offset are and how to write wiki markup.
Hint: The latter is what you enter if you prefer not to use the VisualEditor. At Wikimedia Commons, the most important template is
{{Information}}
, which you
certainly want to use
on every of your file description pages.
If you don't know, you can still try your luck but don't blame me for any unexpected incidents.
Activation link probably under the edit tab. Otherwise it's in the Tools box of the side bar
How to install
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Add
importScript
'User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js'
);
to
your
common.js
Global or foreign wiki installation
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Note that the uploads always go to the wiki you are on! Cross-Wiki upload is not supported yet.
Add
mw
loader
load
'https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'
);
to
your
global.js
Make sure you remove any imports of this script at Wikimedia Commons before enabling global import, i.e. check your
common.js
and
vector.js
(or
monobook.js
respectively)
that you do not import the script there.
How to use
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Overwriting an existing file
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Overwrite and chunked upload links
Choose the second option of the upload link of any file page:
Upload a new version of this file
(chunked upload)
Fill out the reason field in the pop up and select the file to upload.
Creating a new file
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Navigate to
File:DesiredFileName.ext
Please amend the file name before selecting a file
to be useful
Press
upload (chunked)
from your
"Tools" box in the sidebar
, or from the
drop-down menu next to the create (or edit) tab
The location of the link depends on your system and settings.
Fill out the file description field in the pop up and then select the file to upload.
Compatibility
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For a rough estimation c.f.
Troubleshooting
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In case the last chunk was uploaded and you see an error, please go to your
UploadStash
and try publishing from there (click
here
).
If publishing doesn't work, you might be running across
this error
. To workaround it, follow the instructions
here
Always select a reasonable chunk size. Uploading a 500 MiB video in 100 KiB chunks will likely fail due to server quotas while assembling the chunk. Uploading a 100 MiB video through a crappy connection with a chunk size of 20 MiB will likely be unsuccessful, too because none of the chunks will make it in one piece to the server.
There is currently a
known issue with larger DJVUs and PDFs
. To successfully upload them, you have to
un
-tick the checkbox
use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)
. Don't do this generally as it makes the upload process more unreliable.
If larger chunks are told be uploaded 100% within no time and you encounter errors, it is most likely a proxy is taking all the data from your browser. Check your browser's and system's proxy settings then.
Report any other issues to
my talk page
See also
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Commons:Chunked uploads
Help:Chunked upload
Users using bigChunkedUpload.js
including
CSteipp, Software Security Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
Uploads since 19 March 2026
Discussion
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stashfailed
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Latest comment:
7 years ago
2 comments
1 person in discussion
Hi, Please see
phab:T200820#4826332
. Thanks,
Yann
talk
11:18, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Reply
I tried again without "stash and async" (as recommended above), and I got another error:
phab:T212101
Yann
talk
16:03, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Reply
Uploads blocked on the first chunk
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Latest comment:
4 years ago
2 comments
1 person in discussion
Hi, I have several examples of uploads blocked after the first chunk. No error message. Thanks,
Yann
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14:51, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
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Again this happens all the time.
Yann
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08:54, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Reply
FAILED: internal_api_error
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Latest comment:
4 years ago
2 comments
1 person in discussion
Hi, I got
00030: FAILED: internal_api_error_UploadChunkFileException: [d187c3cd-06f9-4930-aa79-f4c504c6be32] Caught exception of type UploadChunkFileException
while uploading a new version of
File:The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 52.pdf
Yann
talk
10:06, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Reply
Again now
00579: FAILED: internal_api_error_UploadChunkFileException: [155e92c0-67b3-4996-aaf9-4e2fc2a413b9] Caught exception of type UploadChunkFileException
Yann
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11:16, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
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Sever-Error 0
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Latest comment:
1 year ago
8 comments
3 people in discussion
Hi, I got twice the message
18739: finalize/35> Sever-Error 0. Reason: error ... Still waiting for server to rebuild uploaded file
and
20248: finalize/32> Sever-Error 0. Reason: error ... Still waiting for server to publish uploaded file
after waiting a very log time, while uploading a new version of
File:सम्पूर्ण गाँधी वांग्मय Sampurna Gandhi, vol. 56.pdf
and
File:सम्पूर्ण गाँधी वांग्मय Sampurna Gandhi, vol. 57.pdf
Yann
talk
15:43, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Reply
Yann
: I got the a similar-looking error, but with properly spelled "Server", without the hyphen, and with a lowercase second word. Sometimes, the tool has to wait a very long time to get sufficient info to write "Chunk uploaded". Along the way, it may display "upload is stuck" (about every 5 seconds until uploaded), "Connection seems to be okay.", "Waiting one more time...", "Re-sending this request.", or even "Server error 0 after uploading chunk:
Response: ". I have also gotten "Offset issue by Server detected. Attempting to fix automatically.", "Looks like this chunk was successfully transmitted but didn't receive a success message for it.Please have a look at the file after uploading.", and the preceding prefixed with "FAILED:". These messages can be explained as tolerating a good connection to a dodgy or overloaded system; it cannot all be explained by dodgy connection, machine, or script. Yes, I am in the process of trying to upload a colorized, 1437 × 1080, 60FPS, CQ24 version of Dixiana using a chunk size of 20480 KiB (20 MiB), with "use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)" checked. It is 4,938,565 KB on disk. If it succeeds, it will be named
File:Dixiana 1930 (colorized, 1437 × 1080, 60FPS, CQ24).webm
. I am uploading 242 chunks of 20.48 MiB each. Most of the chunks/parts upload successfully with a response in short order. I have seen 100 and 74 chunks/parts uploaded successfully the first try, but I have also seen failures. I have seen 242 chunks/parts uploaded successfully the third time, with the current result "finalize/242> Still waiting for server to rebuild uploaded file" displaying every 5 seconds or so since "09293: 242/242> Chunk uploaded" and "09293: finalize/242> Assembling chunks", and there have now been 25097-09293=15084s, or 263.4m, or 4.39h (4h23m24s) since the server started assembling the chunks. How long do I have to wait?   — 🇺🇦
Jeff G.
please
ping
or
talk to me
🇺🇦
15:58, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
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I waited until more than double the first start of assembly time of 9293 seconds (76000 and 34000) had passed, and had enough, so started again. I also started
phab:T383554
.   — 🇺🇦
Jeff G.
please
ping
or
talk to me
🇺🇦
10:40, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Reply
I also have gotten the following with "use stash and async (recommended for large videos and photos)" disabled as a test:
07550: 242/242> upload in progress Upload: 100%
07651: 242/242> Server error 500 after uploading chunk: Response: