[tei-council] Uploading files to the WIKI

[Kevin Hawkins]

The wiki no longer allows anonymous editing; instead, everyone has to 
create an account.  That explains why what James did didn't make a 
difference.

Even though I agree with Martin's recent message that this isn't urgent, 
I think we should try to upgrade MediaWiki anyway so that we don't fall 
too far behind in versions.

--Kevin

On 11/4/12 1:51 PM, James Cummings wrote:
>
> ah,  I see the problem.
>
> we're running 1.16.5 and this override to the check is only
> introduced in 1.19.0
>
> Investigating workarounds,
>
> -James
>
> On 04/11/12 18:49, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> 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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