Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:50 UTC
allow uploads to be uploaded into different "directories". Implement this by replacing directory separator with character which otherwise is disallowed from file name, but would not cause problems when storing and retrieveing files. Store all files as currently done, but use new directory separator as a way to implement logical directories in the interface.
Doesn't seem to be much purpose or benefit to this. Resolving as WONTFIX.
Many people have problems with filename conflicts. Many other wikis have upload schemes where the files are separated into directories. This eliminates the problem with confilcts of common names, and encourages people to separate files specific to a particular subject from the main pool of files. Its the same reason that file structures exist in the first place. Please ask other users if this is a desired feature before discarding.
*** Bug 8548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm also interested on having the ability of uploading files to different subdirectories (preserve the directory structure), i.e, to be able to upload [[Image:/dir1/image.png]] and [[Image:/dir2/image.png]]. The current behavior is that the image gets uploaded as Image.png, and none of those links work. My proposal is to create the directories as needed, so they'll both work and point to different images. Advantage: on some situations, there is conflict with the filenames. For instance, on my university, two professors cannot upload a [[Media:Conference1.pdf]]. This proposal would allow them to upload a [[Media:class1/Conference1.pdf]] and [[Media:class2/Conference1.pdf]] and solve the conflict. The solution suggested by Brion Vibber at 8548 doesn't help me a lot, as it depends on the user's well naming conventions and little can be done to detect or prevent accidents (where the directory convention would give a strict naming scheme that can be checked by a hook to prevent one user accidentally overwriting another user's files) Disadvantages: I don't know - yet. I wrote a patch that implements this. Please look at the commented section that asks "Why is this here?". I couldn't figure out if it was required because of security concerns. I'll attach the my proposal right away.
Created attachment 3037 [details] Preserves the directory structure of uploaded files It applies against mediawiki 1.6 and 1.9 (svn). I'm currently using it (and plan on making a userCan hook to prevent accidents) to store the online documents of my department.
