RE: Migrating attachments

I found the following reference regarding how to configure MediaWiki to
support additional file types:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files#Suppor
ted_file_types

---R

-----Original Message-----
From: public-wiki-dev-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-wiki-dev-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg
Sent: 19 October 2007 20:01
To: Rotan Hanrahan
Cc: public-wiki-dev@w3.org
Subject: Re: Migrating attachments


Can you prepend the new name with the path of the old file (change  
"/" to ".") ?
Would like it if html uploads were allowed as well, btw.

-Alan

On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Rotan Hanrahan wrote:

> Next problem...
>
> In moinmoin, attachments are associated with the page to which they  
> were attached. In MediaWiki, the attachments belong to a flat  
> space. This means that moinmoin attachments that have the same  
> filename will cause clashes in MediaWiki space. Images and general  
> media have their own "image:" and "media:" spaces in MediaWiki, but  
> both are flat. To preserve the association with the parent page on  
> moinmoin, the names of the attachments will have to change  
> accordingly.
>
> Furthermore, uploading attachments to MediaWiki is not  
> straightforward, as it seems that MediaWiki doesn't have a general  
> attachment mechanism. If MediaWiki doesn't recognise the file  
> extension then you can't upload it. For example, to configure  
> MediaWiki to permit the upload of PDF "images", you add the  
> following configuration:
>
>
> $wgFileExtensions[] = 'pdf';
>
>
> One of the most common attachment types is Zip compressed files.  
> These need to be handled specially, with the following  
> configuration (assuming the server is on a un*x system):
>
> $wgMimeDetectorCommand = 'file -bi';
>
> This is far from perfect because one has to anticipate the file  
> extensions, or decide not to port certain file types. I find this a  
> little disappointing, but hope that someone out there has a better  
> idea.
>
> ---Rotan
>

Received on Friday, 19 October 2007 19:34:49 UTC