[tei-council] Uploading files to the WIKI

[David Sewell]

James,

Thanks for tweaking the MediaWiki settings! And if anyone continues to 
have problems uploading files that should be legitimately accepted we 
can investigate further.

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, James Cummings wrote:

>
> David (Council CC'ed),
>
> This is actually a different problem. We've always had the permitted file 
> types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, ogg, zip, xsl, xml, dtd, odd, rnc, rng, txt, pdf. 
> It is just an earlier upgrade on media wiki introduced script checking where 
> it (falsely) identifies TEI files as potentially dodgy HTML or javascript. 
> I've not investigated how it does this check and why it is failing, but found 
> a number of reported  bugs about it.
>
> I've set $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks to true, and explicitly marked 
> non-registered users as not being able to upload (though I think this was our 
> default any way).  Piotr and Kevin will probably advise if this results in 
> people who shouldn't being able to upload files.
>
> It allowed me to, but I might have special powers.
>
> Lou: We're not talking about uploading and processing TEI files of any 
> particular type, but just uploading XML files in the same way you might 
> upload PDFs or PNGs, etc.  Frankly if I was Martin I'd probably just link to 
> the XML file provided elsewhere.
>
> -James
>
> On 04/11/12 13:52, David Sewell wrote:
>> During the last upgrade of the TEI wiki, we ran into a PHP issue
>> or two that required changes to files on the server that were
>> root-access only, meaning Shayne needed to intervene. If that's
>> the case this time, a fix will probably need to wait until
>> Monday. But I'll take a look at things when I can today--may not
>> be until evening as I have a commitment earlier.
>> 
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Piotr Bański wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Martin,
>>> 
>>> It might have been inadvertently changed during the upgrade of
>>> the wiki
>>> software (veeery useful, it fixed a few problems, spambots among
>>> others). David has done a great wizarding job on that,
>>> hopefully he can
>>> help with the file upload issue as well.
>>>
>>>  P.
>>> 
>>> On 04/11/12 03:19, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm working on my Prefix Definition Proposal on the wiki, and
>>>> I've
>>>> drafted a new section of the Guidelines that I wanted to
>>>> include as part
>>>> of the proposal. This is a regular TEI file, including a div
>>>> which could
>>>> be inserted into the SA chapter. It's obviously easier to
>>>> write it
>>>> directly in TEI, and then insert it into the chapter if and
>>>> when it gets
>>>> approval, than to draft it in a word-processor and then have
>>>> to tag it
>>>> up afterwards.
>>>> 
>>>> I wanted to upload this to the wiki so people could vet it,
>>>> but when I
>>>> tried to upload it as an XML file, the wiki said:
>>>> 
>>>> "This file contains HTML or script code that may be erroneously
>>>> interpreted by a web browser."
>>>> 
>>>> So I tried zipping it up (as I've done before with a script
>>>> file). This
>>>> time, it said:
>>>> 
>>>> "Files of the MIME type "application/zip" are not allowed to
>>>> be uploaded."
>>>> 
>>>> But the wiki upload page also says:
>>>> 
>>>> "Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, ogg, zip, xsl,
>>>> xml, dtd,
>>>> odd, rnc, rng, txt, pdf."
>>>> 
>>>> In other words, it's supposed to be able to accept both XML
>>>> and zip
>>>> files, but it won't. Someone or something must have changed
>>>> the settings
>>>> since I last uploaded a zip file last year, but not changed
>>>> the text of
>>>> the page which explains the limitations.
>>>> 
>>>> I think a TEI wiki that doesn't allow us to upload XML files
>>>> is a bit
>>>> ridiculous. Could we get this changed?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
> 
>
>

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