Mediawiki is really fun and easy to use. I think my initial issues with it are all resolved. There is one small task I would like to do using mediawiki, but it may be outside its baliwick. I want to embed a tarball in a wiki page for download using syntax similar to the image and media file links. This would be a sort of "arbitrary file link" which would download the file for processing on the remote computer.
I would like to embed tarballs in a mediawiki page and make them available for download. While what I mean appears obvious to me, I will take a moment to explain exactly what I want to happen.
Upload file
I want to upload the tarball, just like I currently do .jpg and .png files and have them "go somewhere".
Link into wiki
I want to link the tarball into mediawiki with a syntax similar to web links.
[file:ball.tar ball distribution]
I want the above to show "ball distribution" as highlighted text in the wiki.
download tarball
I want to be able to click on "ball distribution" above and download the ball.tar file using either http or ftp.
I could accomplish an equivalent of the above by linking to a web server from inside the wiki, but I would like to do this using the wiki software itself.
Perhaps this is an abuse of wikis in general or perhaps this is outside the boundries of mediawiki's target design. Or maybe it's already implemented and I didn't notice... :-). It would be helpful, but I will find some other way to do what I need if it can't be done in mediawiki.
Scott T. Emery wrote:
Mediawiki is really fun and easy to use. I think my initial issues with it are all resolved. There is one small task I would like to do using mediawiki, but it may be outside its baliwick. I want to embed a tarball in a wiki page for download using syntax similar to the image and media file links. This would be a sort of "arbitrary file link" which would download the file for processing on the remote computer.
I'm not sure how this is supposed to be different from uploading a file and using a media link, as already supported...?
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