Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050207 07:07]:
We can host them. We just can't allow anyone to upload potentially dangerous files. See Brion's email on this when pdf was first disallowed: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-September/025472.html
Oh, good lord. TEXT is forbidden?!
/me curses IE's crackmonkey authors
Looks like if I want SVG uploads on Commons I'll need to write a mathematically-watertight validity checker myself. Barring no new exploits found that use perfectly valid SVG files. Grah!
- d.