David Gerard wrote:
Andrew Archibald wrote:
In Wikipedia, there are a few diferent things we might wish to do with SVG:
- Simply store it for upload/download to provide diagrams (such as
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Thermal_reactor_diagram.png ) with accompanying source, so that they can be modified (the text translated, for example).
Yep. Uploading a PNG is not actually providing the editable form per GFDL. When I've uploaded a PNG I've included my email for the SVG itself should anyone want the editable version.
(Inkscape: coolest thing ever!)
We discussed possibilities for providing the original SVG (of course these by their nature subvert wikipedia's "security"), including: post the SVG to the image description page (fine for handwritten SVG, but when a few circles and rectangles come out to 30K it's not so nice), sneak the SVG into PNG comments (can even be zipped!), or find somewhere else to post the stuff. None were very satisfactory. Neither is providing contact information; users have a tendency to disappear.
My diagrams are not exactly the Mona Lisa, but I can easily imagine wanting to translate the text...
Unfortunately, it really is possible to put scripts in SVG (it was designed to replace Flash) and someone may someday write a viewer that executes such scripts in a trusted context, so it has been Decided that SVG uploads should be disabled.
I'm trying to solve that problem.
Andrew