[tei-council] Uploading files to the WIKI

[James Cummings]

Actually, I say that fixed it... but I don't think it did. :-( 
(I thought it allowed me to upload but it just didn't complain... 
but doesn't seem to have uploaded.)

-James

On 04/11/12 18:46, David Sewell wrote:
> 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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Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford