https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1790

SJ <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from SJ <[email protected]> ---
I can't find any descriptions online of the scale and severity of "malicious
embedded stuff" problems with various data formats.  How did we choose the
formats that we don't support, back in the day?  

There should probably be a page on Commons dealing in detail with each class of
knowledge or data-format, and the problems that need to be overcome before we
can host such knowledge or formats.  

I don't actually know of a reason why we don't simply turn on uploading of a
bunch of these formats, considering their ubiquity in other data- and
file-sharing formats online; all we are doing is making it difficult for people
to find and share freely-licensed knowledge in those formats, not making it
difficult for someone with ill intent to share malicious hidden code.

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