On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for replying, Nicolas & Marco... If that is the case, then that means we will never be able to upload "modifiable" presentations :( The problem is that most presentations are in PPT format or in ODF format, and asking users to upload in a new editable format really limits the number of presentations that can be uploaded and shared. In theory, we can write some code to scan the files (they are zip files, so it's not hard to find out what's inside). and limit what uploaders can put in the ODF files. I think XML and graphic files are valid file types. May be a few hundred lines of Perl or Python will do the job... provided that there are helper utilities are available :D I guess I will check with the ODF guys. BTW, how likely will we enble ODF upload support if I can come up with such a filter?? Rayson

BTW there is a bug report regarding this general issue: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2089 "Whitelist OASIS OpenDocument file format" 2009/5/6 Aryeh Gregor &lt;Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: Or maybe: it would be nice to have a MediaWiki extension that made collaboratively editing slide sets as simple as collaboratively editing wiki pages. Your I believe it would not be hugely difficult to make an extension to incorporate the S5 slide show format which is based on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. DokuWiki has a plugin for this and it's very neat. I wrote about this idea a few months ago. <http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/185/wikiversity-interested-how-to-make-a-wiki-editable-slideshow> However, the most popular method of developing slides by far, is by Powerpoint/Keynote/OO.org Impress etc. I don't think there has been developed any good method for converting these kinds of slide sets to the S5 format or a similar format. So while it may be true that "they should just be wiki pages", in reality that doesn't really work. In the absence of good format conversion methods, it makes more sense to aim for collaborative editing of the existing popular style of creating slides. And in the absence of THAT, it would be nice if we could at least upload ODFs so we can download them and edit them manually (a la SVGs). Being stuck with PDFs only is the worst of all situations. Even if slide sets are not used much directly by the projects (or is it just not YET because there is no good method for sharing them?), they are still extremely useful to share in the "meta-organisation" and for promoting the projects. And to my mind that kind of material is also important to support. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Brianna Laugher &lt;brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: another option is to make a new "skin" for the wiki, that is much like a "web slideshow" viewer. And having a "master page" that include the frames (so you can use frames from a different slideshow). pros: - use text - simple - it can reuse frames - editable with a browser cons: - It don't use the popular Microsoft Office [tm] software - not wysiwig -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.