On 16/09/2007, Andreas K. Huettel <A.K.Huettel(a)tudelft.nl> wrote:
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Dear list,
we are using a MediaWiki for internal documentation. Sometimes we would
like to upload text files (automatically generated equipment logs).
Ideally they should be displayed as preformatted text, with no
interpretation at all (the files can contain "<", ">", ...).
Is there an easy and comfortable way to do this?
Well, you can use the "file upload" feature to actually upload the
file, and MediaWiki will treat it as an actual file, which users will
be able to download, etc. However, given that you're uploading text,
this sucks, since it won't be searchable, and it won't be so
convenient to link to it, etc.
I'd probably recommend adopting maintenance/importTextFile.php - copy
it, and change things so that before it saves the text, it wraps it in
"<pre></pre>" - MediaWiki will then leave the text alone when
displaying, and you'll get all the benefits of searching and in-wiki
display and other goodies such as may be available.
Rob Church