On 17/04/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/17/07, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
What I propose is to introduce a new prefix
called "download", which will
replace "media" for cases where downloading is really what is desired. For
example:
[[download:Foo.doc|Click here to download the text as an MS Word document]]
Is it necessary to have two keywords? Consider the case of an image:
It displays as a thumbnail, but if you click it, you can then download
the full sized image. To get straight on with downloading it, you use
[[:Image:Foo.jpg]].
Er, no you don't. That just makes a link to the image page. "To get
straight on with downloading it", you do [[media:Foo.jpg]].
There are three things. (attempting) displaying the item inline,
making a text link to the item page (i.e. pages in the Image:
namespace currently), and making a text link to the item itself.
Anyway +1 for anything that improves any media support. Wikisource
might also have some ideas about how to improve wikisyntax as they use
DjVU fies, and ditto Wiktionary with audio.
cheers,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise