We currently exclude a wealth of common file formats -- and as a result,
ecosystems of knowledge. How can we elevate the general priority of
broadening supported formats?
In the past year I've worked on projects generating public-domain *csv*s,
and public-domain *epub*s, and each time found that there is no place in
the wikiverse to store them (and no other community archive that is
remotely as reliable and useful). Each time I discover this, my mind
actually goes blank for a moment in crogglement, and I seem to forget that
it happened. But today I retained coherence long enough to write this note.
Commons's list of Unsupported file types
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Unsupported_file_types>*
says
"help needed to support these" -- what help is needed, and how can we get
there? Are all 40 of the formats listed still really unsupported?
SJ