On Wikipedia, only uploading media (images, video and audio) is allowed. Darren VanBuren ------------------------- Sent from my iPod
Try Fedora 10 today. Fire it up. http://fedoraproject.org/ On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:06, "McHale, Nina" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, all, > > Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize > uploading of Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main > objection to it is that we ought to be entering information into > wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document > versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes > it a wiki... > > I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not > outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get > people to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being > unreasonable? I even stated that it's acceptable to load the final > version of a 20-page report, or a form that's meant to be printed > out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state that do not > need further editing. > > Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised > that it came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as > I can tell, does not support uploading of Word docs. > > Nina > Nina McHale, MA/MSLS > Assistant Professor, Web Librarian > Auraria Library > http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/ > Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672599042> | > MySpace<http://www.myspace.com/ninermac > > > Serving the University of Colorado Denver, > Metropolitan State College of Denver, > and the Community College of Denver > 1100 Lawrence Street > Denver, CO 80204 > 303-556-4729 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
