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 get created in /images. * Adding this extension to an existing wiki that hasn't been running it before (i.e., only some historical images will be in subversion) * Doing a "history" command on an image file, as opposed to the article 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.

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 get created in /images. * Adding this extension to an existing wiki that hasn't been running it before (i.e., only some historical images will be in subversion) * Doing a "history" command on an image file, as opposed to the article 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l