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.
Thanks for clearing that up - I didn't mean to spread disinformation. :(
According to my 1.9.3 DefaultSettings.php:
$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg' );
Should we add bmp, ogg, mp3, avi, wma, etc to better reflect the newer interpretation? (I haven't checked 1.10 alpha yet, so I apologize in advance if this has already been done).
-- Jim
On 4/6/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/04/07, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@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
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