https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421
--- Comment #63 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2010-04-02 16:30:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #62) > > Of course it's not guaranteed to be correct (as the spec goes on to say), > > but > > it certainly does help. This is about human readability, not whether the > > file > > extension really matters. > > If that's the primary concern, then the right thing to do is to set up > "Image:", "Audio:" and "Video:" namespaces to distinguish between different > file types, rather than lumping them all in to "File:". Expecting > non-technical users to understand that ".svg" usually means a vector diagram > hardly serves the goal of readability. There may be a case for adding "Audio" and "Video" prefixes as aliases for "File", though it would probably cause conflicts with a fair number of installations that have already created separate namespaces with these prefixes. Implementing this feature (extensionless files) as a configurable option with the default off might be an option, though the required schema changes make it unlikely that many people would utilize it, I think. In general, it seems like removing the extensions causes far more problems than it solves. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
