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...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)