Has anyone thought of doing this?

There doesn't seem to be a good pattern that I know of for linking big external 
files to a wiki. I have a lot of big files, and I want to use a tw5 as a 
detailed interactive index that I can update in the browser.

If I were to throw an index.html file onto a WebDAV server with my collection 
of files, I could link directly to sub folders and file on the same server, and 
also update my descriptions of them on the wiki through the browser. And, I 
could also mount the WebDAV share to add or edit files. And there are WebDAV 
libraries in JavaScript that could let me potentially browse the WebDAV share 
through the browser.

So, a potential scenario would be:
Open https://mylibrary.homeserver.com/index.html (tw5 wiki)
PDFs files could be stored in https://mylibrary.homeserver.com/files/pdfs
I could mount that share external to the browser, to modify the files if I 
want. Or maybe I can use a plugin to PUT a file that I drop into that folder 
via a plugin (I believe I could do that, right?)
I could also enumerate the contents of /files/pdfs from a plugin using 
JavaScript and PROPFIND.

It would be amazing if I could drag a file into the tw5 interface, and have it 
be PUT into a folder on my webserver, and then have the irk interted into my 
wiki. And I could add entire folders by mounting the share (and tw5 could 
enumerate them). Also, the latest version of chrome supports uploading entire 
folders through the browser.

I've seen some for indexing photos and PDFs. But I haven't seen a way of doing 
it that I've really liked. Most people just use file:// urls, which are a 
problem because they have to be absolute path, and obviously they also have to 
be on the local machine.

Has anyone used a wiki as a front-end for a collection of files?

Has anyone thought of doing it like this?

Are there any potential problems I might not be seeing? The only thing that I 
see as a problem is the inefficiency of uploading the entire wiki to save it, 
especially as it gets big.

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