On 7/15/2012 10:00 AM, Achim Flammenkamp wrote: > I seriously was thinking whether better to desubscribe from this list, because > until now, no helpful comment came.
You should stick around, but you should also understand that your request isn't something that Wikimedia is likely to deploy since it doesn't meet the needs of a significant part of the Wiki*-using community. Instead, since this is a tool *you* want, you should look at creating a tool that meets your needs. Since a few other people have expressed interest, maybe they would be interested in helping you. None of this requires the help of anyone at Wikimedia (or even on this list). For example, suppose you wanted to use Emacs key-bindings for editing articles (yes, some of us do want to do that). Before mediawiki.el was written (see http://launchpad.net/mediawiki-el), you would have to cut-n-paste the article into Emacs and then paste it back into the text area. That is similar to your current circumstance with SVG. You have to download the file, edit in your editor, and then re-upload it. Using the API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Upload), you could make it possible to use any editor you wish to edit the source of the SVG and have the result seamlessly uploaded to the wiki. You've gotten a lot of helpful suggestions here. You are asking for a feature that a very small number of people would benefit from. Even the things that *might* happen, like the SVGEdit extension, you don't seem ready to embrace it. If you think editing SVGs should be simpler, then I suggest that the best way to approach this is to find a way to work with those people like you who have similar goals. You've been told that your current idea probably isn't going to fly. Figure out a new way to get what you want. -- What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together. -- Snuff, Terry Pratchett _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
