BTW there is a bug report regarding this general issue:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2089
"Whitelist OASIS OpenDocument file format"
2009/5/6 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
There's still the problem that most ODF uploads
would be much more
suitable as wiki pages. That makes them a lot easier to edit.
Or maybe: it would be nice to have a MediaWiki extension that made
collaboratively editing slide sets as simple as collaboratively
editing wiki pages.
Your
presentation could be uploaded as a bunch of images
that you'd put on
the wiki page. Then each image could be edited separately, etc. The
same goes double for documents that are mainly text. You have to
download and reupload to edit, you need to install some special
software to do the editing, there are no automatic diffs, . . .
I believe it would not be hugely difficult to make an extension to
incorporate the S5 slide show format which is based on XHTML, CSS, and
JavaScript. DokuWiki has a plugin for this and it's very neat. I wrote
about this idea a few months ago.
<http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/185/wikiversity-interested-how-to-make-a-wiki-editable-slideshow>
However, the most popular method of developing slides by far, is by
Powerpoint/Keynote/OO.org Impress etc. I don't think there has been
developed any good method for converting these kinds of slide sets to
the S5 format or a similar format. So while it may be true that "they
should just be wiki pages", in reality that doesn't really work. In
the absence of good format conversion methods, it makes more sense to
aim for collaborative editing of the existing popular style of
creating slides.
And in the absence of THAT, it would be nice if we could at least
upload ODFs so we can download them and edit them manually (a la
SVGs). Being stuck with PDFs only is the worst of all situations.
Even if slide sets are not used much directly by the projects (or is
it just not YET because there is no good method for sharing them?),
they are still extremely useful to share in the "meta-organisation"
and for promoting the projects. And to my mind that kind of material
is also important to support.
cheers
Brianna
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