Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-11 Thread Platonides
Tei wrote: > another option is to make a new "skin" for the wiki, that is much like a > "web slideshow" viewer. And having a "master page" that include the frames > (so you can use frames from a different slideshow). Someone already made an extension doing exactly that (although I don't remember

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-08 Thread Tei
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > However, the most popular method of developing slides by far, is by > Powerpoint/Keynote/OO.org Impress etc. I don't think there has been > developed any good method for converting these kinds of slide sets to > the S5 format or a similar fo

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-08 Thread Lane, Ryan
> > There's still the problem that most ODF uploads would be much more > > suitable as wiki pages. That makes them a lot easier to edit. > > Or maybe: it would be nice to have a MediaWiki extension that made > collaboratively editing slide sets as simple as collaboratively > editing wiki pages. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-06 Thread Brianna Laugher
BTW there is a bug report regarding this general issue: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2089 "Whitelist OASIS OpenDocument file format" 2009/5/6 Aryeh Gregor : > There's still the problem that most ODF uploads would be much more > suitable as wiki pages. That makes them a lot easie

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-06 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/5/09 11:37 PM, Rayson Ho escribió: > While we are on this topic... I am wondering if (or when) we will > allow ODF files to be uploaded to Wikipedia / Wikimedia. > > I created a presentation for a conference a few months ago; I think > some slides can be reused by others... I think it would be

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-06 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Rayson Ho wrote: > In theory, we can write some code to scan the files (they are zip > files, so it's not hard to find out what's inside). and limit what > uploaders can put in the ODF files. I think XML and graphic files are > valid file types. May be a few hundred

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-06 Thread Rayson Ho
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Nicolas Dumazet wrote: > 2009/5/6 Marco Schuster : >> Never, I think. > > Yep. I think that this archive discussion from las November > http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00064.html > is relevant Thanks for replying, Nicolas & Marco... If

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-06 Thread Nicolas Dumazet
2009/5/6 Marco Schuster : > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Rayson Ho wrote: > >> While we are on this topic... I am wondering if (or when) we will >> allow ODF files to be uploaded to Wikipedia / Wikimedia. > > > Never, I think. Yep. I think that this archive discussion from las November http://

Re: [Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-05 Thread Marco Schuster
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Rayson Ho wrote: > While we are on this topic... I am wondering if (or when) we will > allow ODF files to be uploaded to Wikipedia / Wikimedia. Never, I think. ODF files are just zip archives and you can embed every kind of shit in them and they'll still be valid

[Wikitech-l] uploading ODF files??

2009-05-05 Thread Rayson Ho
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_format_policy, although that never > passed AFAIK -- but are probably not legal as long as we're only > allowed to distribute under the GFDL. While we are on this topic... I am wondering if (or when) we will