[Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

[Dave Sigafoos]

"No, it's true - Microsoft are .."

Yes it is true and I never suggested otherwise, but to give the
impression that nothing should be done to help those millions of users
.. I just never understand this idea. And that is ok as we all come from
different places.

"David, from what I gather, you keep stating that we can't "search on
(images)" but you haven't said what you'd actually like the software
to be able to do. It may be possible to add some sort of extensible
mechanism for MediaWiki to be able to index uploads in some fashion;
if that's what you want, then endorse it."

I have stated that I want to be able to index other types of documents.
That just having and IMAGE type, while probably fine in the beginning
and probably find for the majority of use, might be *limiting*.  I
believe that these 2 things are still there so that is what I am looking
at.

I don't really have anything to endorse because I am still trying to
gain information from this list and from examining code (extensions
etc).  Yes I believe there could be an extension that handles want I see
as a missing feature BUT until I am knowledgeable enough in MW to say
that specifically I think would be *wrong*.

I am not sure where you get the " .. MediaWiki can't even do this, it
sucks .. '.  I have said before and will say again for the audience that
I think MediaWiki is great .. great .. GREAT.

Tell you what, I will duck my head back down and try to work bits out by
my self without asking HOW or WHY as it might give the wrong impression.
I will try to come up with a specific definition then post it and see if
anyone can help me.

Thanks


DSig

 


-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:39
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

On 09/04/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos at sanmar.com> wrote:
> I get it.  You are a MS hater and that is cool.  I am not that fond of
> them either which is why we use OpenOffice in our business and on my
> systems at home.  But the simple fact is that there are millions of
> users.  Some of them are clients.

No, it's true - Microsoft are known to keep changing their proprietary
formats, and it is fair to state that this interferes with anybody
trying to interpret them for any purpose, legitimate or otherwise.

> Of course right now it doesn't really matter as the only TYPE is IMAGE
> and MW doesn't appear to be able to search on it (which makes sense if
> the only type I wanted to store was IMAGE.

David, from what I gather, you keep stating that we can't "search on
(images)" but you haven't said what you'd actually like the software
to be able to do. It may be possible to add some sort of extensible
mechanism for MediaWiki to be able to index uploads in some fashion;
if that's what you want, then endorse it.

All I can see is a bunch of "MediaWiki can't even do this, it sucks"
type comments from various quarters, none of which are making the
problem clear enough for us to understand.


Rob Church

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