Achim Flammenkamp wrote: > It is now quiet silent, since 19. June, after I opened this topic about on 6th > june on wikipedia. The latest discussion is stored at > URL > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2012/06#Maintai > ning_.28and_thus_editing.29_SVGs.27_text_like_wiki_articles > > I wonder what has happened. This was also the 3rd different try/community on > wikimedia where I opened this subject but noone felt responsible. I hope I'm > not too impatient to get a response here about the current status, don't I?
Hi. I looked into this for you. It's not a very complicated situation. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5899> is a bug titled "Allow on-wiki editing of SVG images". This bug was marked resolved/fixed by Brion in 2010 because the original bug was about having the _ability_ for such a feature (editing SVGS on-wiki) while using the MediaWiki software. This was implemented in the SVGEdit extension (<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SVGEdit>; cf. Brion's comment here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5899#c24>. You can also read the bug's full history (except comments) here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_activity.cgi?id=5899>. Where this got off the tracks is that you don't want to re-open bug 5899. That was a mistake. I marked bug 5899 resolved/fixed again; it should stay in that state. I filed a separate bug about reviewing and deploying the SVGEdit extension to Wikimedia wikis here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38271>. CAVEAT: Getting an extension deployed to Wikimedia wikis is usually an enormous pain in the ass, especially if it's not a priority for the Wikimedia Foundation. You'll likely need to either commit to fixing the code yourself or providing the necessary resources to fix the code, assuming you can get it reviewed by the appropriate person (there are few people in a position to do this). It's often a very arduous and frustrating process. Just a fair warning before you get too invested in the idea. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
