On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is interesting. I'm going to look more into what you've been doing > over the weekend. But in the meantime I have a related question. > > I've been working (quietly) on Multimedia Usability, and one major issue > with the whole design of multimedia on mediawiki, IMO, is the unity of > storage filename, URL, and title. > > Since you've gone halfway there, how hard would it be to break these > dependencies entirely? > This work is definitely a step in that direction, and probably not too much more dev work to go all of the way. The test/bugfix cycle is what worries me the most, for reasons that probably are the same for any feature in this area. Decoupling the filename from the URL/Title would involve not only storing file extensions in the database, but full filenames, which would result in a few more megabytes of database space on commons. There's been quite a bit of debate in Bugzilla since yesterday about the database modifications and the merits of the feature generally: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4421#c51 > Also, I want a pony. Not before I get my unicorn. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
