"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@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@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@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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