diff --git a/static/media/.gitignore b/static/media/.gitignore
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+*/
diff --git a/static/media/README.md b/static/media/README.md
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+The files in this directory are not meant to be tracked in git.ipng.ch.
+Instead, they should be added to media.ipng.ch/sabbatical/media/
+and then pushed to the nginx0.*.ipng.ch cluster.