Hi - In order to reduce the burden of dealing with images on my MediaWiki site, I upload all my images to my Flickr account; then I use an interwiki link to point to the images. Saves me from dealing with backup/restore etc.
Just a thought. Jean-Lou PS: I have crafted PHING tasks that deal with SVN commands if you are interested.
On Nov 30, 2007 1:59 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Does anyone know of a MediaWiki extension to provide revision control for uploaded images, say, via subversion?
On first thought it seems easy -- just let the /images folder be a subversion working copy, and run hooks to do "svn add/commit" on upload or "svn delete/commit" on deletion, providing the user comment as an svn comment. Maybe the hardest parts would be:
The necessary "svn add" operations when new subfolders getcreated in /images.
Adding this extension to an existing wiki that hasn't beenrunning it before (i.e., only some historical images will be in subversion)
Doing a "history" command on an image file, as opposed to thearticle in the Image: namespace... UI considerations....
A very simple, though incomplete, implementation, would be to run an svn commit (and associated adds & deletes) every N minutes on /images. That might yield 80% of the benefits without writing an extension.
Thoughts? DanB
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