[Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

[Rob Church]

On 06/04/07, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, the namespace is called "Image" because that's what it's meant to
> store - images.  Not video, not Excel spreadsheets, not Word docs.

No, it's for historical reasons, back when we didn't envision that
people would want to upload other kinds of media. Now it's for general
purpose file storage, and is supposed to hold images, audio and video
files, etc. without problems.


Rob Church