On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Can someone explain why the Wikimedia Commons accepts uploads of printable PDF documents (e.g. brochures) but not the editable source version in Open Document Format (e.g. .ODT). This seems to violate the open source principle.
This should be an FAQ but, but it isn't obvious from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types
I just uploaded a hybrid pdf and it is working properly. you could use that until ODFs are allowed.
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/06/pdf-import-hybrid-odf-pdfs-extension-30.html
Ugh. Please do not rely on this. The embedded zip in PDF has been abused to smuggle illegal material into PDFs on commons. We don't block these files right now, but we may someday, and even without blocking they are likely to be confused for something sneaky and get deleted.
Once we have proper ODF screening we could possibly allow just those in PDF, but then again, we could allow them directly (which I think would be preferable).