On Monday, 14th August 2006 at 03:02:03 (GMT +0100), Rob Church wrote:
[...] Webmaster Comunitatea Româna [...] wrote:
Can you configure MediaWiki so that it allows
users to upload other files
than images into MediaWiki? Mainly I'm interested about MS Word and PDF
documents.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$wgFileExtensions
After you enable the upload of those other files, though, it's advisable
to rename the "Image" namespace to something else, I think. Otherwise
you'll end up with absurdities such as internal links [[Image:Document.pdf]].
Anyway, I've found no better way to avoid the absurdity of such links
except to rename the "Image" namespace to "Storehouse"
("Sklad" in Slovak,
as the only appropriate word not containing a diacritic letter).
I also changed the upload directory from /images to /sklad, the "Special"
namespace to "Extra", and the "Main_Page" to "Welcome"
("Vitajte").
That's because the Slovak equivalents of "Image", "Special",
"Main_Page"
all contain diacritic letters, making frequently used URLs horrendously
long or broken (depending on which browser and/or email program you use).
I'm surprised none of these renamings took place on the Slovak Wikipedia
to make it more user-friendly.
--
Yours,
Alex.
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