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

[James Cummings]

As did we... I think it is an important thing to change, but it 
is non-urgent. I've suggested to David that we have Shayne 
upgrade mediawiki sometime after the members meeting.

-James


On 05/11/12 04:17, Martin Holmes wrote:
> I'm feeling a bit guilty about how much effort David and James are
> putting into this now. I figured it was just a setting that got
> inadvertently turned off. If it's not straightforward, please don't put
> any more time into it.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 12-11-04 06:17 PM, David Sewell wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>


-- 
Dr James Cummings, researchsupport at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford