No, it's for historical reasons, back when we
didn't envision that
people would want to upload other kinds of media. Now it's for general
purpose file storage, and is supposed to hold images, audio and video
files, etc. without problems.
Thanks for clearing that up - I didn't mean to spread disinformation. :(
According to my 1.9.3 DefaultSettings.php:
$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg' );
Should we add bmp, ogg, mp3, avi, wma, etc to better reflect the newer
interpretation? (I haven't checked 1.10 alpha yet, so I apologize in
advance if this has already been done).
-- Jim
On 4/6/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/04/07, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > AFAIK, the namespace is called "Image" because that's what
it's meant to
> > store - images. Not video, not Excel spreadsheets, not Word docs.
>
No, it's for historical reasons, back when we
didn't envision that
people would want to upload other kinds of media. Now it's for general
purpose file storage, and is supposed to hold images, audio and video
files, etc. without problems.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
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