[Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

[David Gerard]

On 09/04/07, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/04/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos at sanmar.com> wrote:
> > I get it.  You are a MS hater and that is cool.  I am not that fond of
> > them either which is why we use OpenOffice in our business and on my
> > systems at home.  But the simple fact is that there are millions of
> > users.  Some of them are clients.
>
> No, it's true - Microsoft are known to keep changing their proprietary
> formats, and it is fair to state that this interferes with anybody
> trying to interpret them for any purpose, legitimate or otherwise.
>
> > Of course right now it doesn't really matter as the only TYPE is IMAGE
> > and MW doesn't appear to be able to search on it (which makes sense if
> > the only type I wanted to store was IMAGE.
>
> David, from what I gather, you keep stating that we can't "search on
> (images)" but you haven't said what you'd actually like the software
> to be able to do. It may be possible to add some sort of extensible
> mechanism for MediaWiki to be able to index uploads in some fashion;
> if that's what you want, then endorse it.
>
> All I can see is a bunch of "MediaWiki can't even do this, it sucks"
> type comments from various quarters, none of which are making the
> problem clear enough for us to understand.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
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