Last modified: 2005-10-08 14:33:10 UTC
For sound files, the [[image:foo.ogg]] page should display a MediaWiki message telling people where to get help with playing the file (where this is doesn't matter as long as it's encoded in MediaWiki namespace somewhere). As a temporary fix, it could be that we can display something on all media regardless of their format. This is an important enhancement if sound files are going to be improved.
We don't even have audio files allowed as a default upload, so I don't see why we should have some kind of special help page on how to open them in MediaWiki any more than we should have one on some other random kind of filetype, furthermore it's a bad to do this in the MediaWiki distribution because this documentation will quickly be out of date.
That's simply not true (though I was initially a bit confused in my explanation). You can upload sound and video files in ogg format. Whereas is it pretty obvious what to do with an image, if someone doesn't know how to play an ogg file they're a bit stuck. Therefore a link to [[Wikipedia:Media help]] just below the file would IMHO be extremely useful. As for the documentation getting out-of-date, surely it is best that someone gets a little information, even if slightly ood, that none at all!
If, by default, the MediaWiki software allows you to upload media files in OGG format, then yes, I would agree there ought to be help. However, this help would have to come from the help namespace, which is not pre-filled for a reason. Consequently, the most I would suggest would be linking to a help page. (Consider; when searching, users are invited to access help on "Searching <wikiname>" - there is, by default, a redlink to the Project:Searching page. That's what we could have here.) However, by default, the MediaWiki software prevents uploading media files of this nature; see the DefaultSettings.php file, $wgFileExtensions (which defines which extensions are permitted) and $wgStrictFileExtensions (which is on by default, and prohibits uploading of any other file formats). Consequently, what Avar said is *very* true.
Lowering severity, introducing new functionality is an enhancement.
* We don't allow uploading of any media files by default (unless you consider jpeg, gif and png media) * If we were to ship detailed help on how to do *anything* as part of the MediaWiki distribution we would do so through the Help namespace, there's an open bug for that (bug 3189) so I'm marking this one as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3189 ***
