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

[Martin Holmes]

I think you must have special powers, at least compared with me. My file 
never ends up in the list of uploaded files.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-11-04 05:51 PM, 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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