On Dec 8, 2003, at 16:25, Toby Bartels wrote:
Evan Prodromou wrote:
What I wonder is whether a Wiki format might not work better for collaboration than CVS.
However, the MediaWiki software, IIRC, had some failings in this respect when it comes to images -- people were able to overwrite uploaded files (which is how MediaWiki treats images) in a way that destroyed information. Has that all been fixed?
In MediaWiki when you upload a new file with the same name as an existing file, the old version is archived and remains accessible. It can be viewed, saved locally and reuploaded with a new name, or reverted in-place. _Deleting_ an image revision would do so permanently, but this is now a restricted admin action.
SVG is an interesting case though; being XML-based it would be possible to provide SVG files in human-readable -- and even human-editable -- source form. That's something we don't currently provide for, but it would be possible to provide for a file upload form that stores data into a wiki page.
OddMuse's file upload feature works like this, I believe. (http://www.oddmuse.org/)
Also hypothetically a plugin- or java-based editor app could be launched directly from the page, but that's outside the scope of this stuff...
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