https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26059

--- Comment #16 from Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]> 2012-02-24 
12:03:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> I'm guessing no additional attempts have gone into this since November. At the
> English Wikipedia a group of editors have discovered a very good use for KML
> files in representing linear features on google/bing maps. Currently the text
> of the KML is posted to a talk page and run from there.
> 
> Can the software not be set to treat kml as a raw text file, rather than
> attempting to parse it as html? We don't need to run the file, we just need a
> more convenient way of adding them than copying and pasting the contents into 
> a
> subpage.

The problem is not whether MediaWiki interprets the KML file as HTML or not,
but the fact that certain broken browsers will treat the KML files as HTML,
opening a whole lot of security vulnerabilities.

As DJ said, KMZ could be acceptable though.

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