https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17012
Summary: Attach source files to uploaded images
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Uploading
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
As a mathematician editor of Wikipedia, all of my file uploads are diagrams I
have created using LaTeX. Although now I upload them as SVG files, which are
at least editable, there is no real indication of the logical structure of the
image, only its elements (however logically described as images). I think it
would be a useful service to allow somehow attaching the source LaTeX file (or
files) to the image so that it could actually be edited by someone else, rather
than laboriously and imprecisely recreated.
One technique is simply to rename the LaTeX source with an acceptable image
file suffix (i.e. file.tex -> file.svg but is still a TeX file) and upload it
alongside with the image, but this is confusing both to editors and the
software, if it is even possible (I haven't tried). Also, it is impossible to
indicate the association between versions of the source code and versions of
the final image, which would be useful for exactly the same reason revision
histories are useful in articles.
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