[tei-council] Uploading files to the WIKI (fwd)

[David Sewell]

Sorry: having just created a temporary wiki account lacking 
administrator privileges, I see that upload of the XML file is not only 
warned but prevented.

It may be that upgrading WikiMedia is the only fix. But I'll poke around 
some more as well.

David

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, David Sewell wrote:

> I am getting the same error message. But it is totally ignorable, no?
>
> Here is all that I did:
>
> 1) Click "Upload file" in sidebar.
>
> 2) Upload a random XML file on my machine called Test.xml
>
> 3) The file uploads, and produces a file page that indeed contains an ominous 
> warning:
>
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/File:Test.xml
>
> but it doesn't prevent the file from being opened:
>
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/images/d/d1/Test.xml
>
> or referenced:
>
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/User:DavidSewell
>
> (click on link in last line).
>
> If an ordinary registered user can do that, we have no problem, I think.
>
> David
>
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, James Cummings wrote:
>
>> 
>> Bah I've hacked and hacked and hacked and not been able to solve this.
>> 
>> I went through includes/SpecialUpload.php commenting out *all* the checks 
>> it does on mimetype, on whether it is an HTML file, javascript, etc. ... 
>> ihad huge functions  doing absolutely nothing but returning that everything 
>> was ok.
>> 
>> *still* same error message.
>> 
>> I give up until after the members meeting if you or shayne haven't fixed it 
>> by then. ;-)
>> 
>> -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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