Hi folks, I don't know how big this problem is, but students of mine have used fairly simple names for files such as 'me.jpg' and 'handout.png' and saved them to the root directory. In some cases they have inadvertently overwritten other files; their files have have been over written by others. A look at the history of this file(not one of my students) illustrates the problem:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Picture.jpg It was actually rather amusing to see someone's profile picture gazing fondly at us from the middle of a lesson plan, but probably something we could have avoided if the uploader had heeded the message on the upload screen (my students have been guilty of ignoring that message also). Suggestions: **I suggest that workshop and classroom facilitators (like myself) emphasize using unique and specific names for files. **Perhaps we should consider having images as sub pages of wiki pages rather than using the typical flat structure of the wiki; is there a way to modify the upload page such that file names default to being sub pages of the page from which the upload option was launched? Finally, perhaps this is a sufficiently rare problem that it can be ignored? Cheers, Declan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
