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Bug 2497 - Admins ought to be able to upload any file
Admins ought to be able to upload any file
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Uploading (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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: 2793 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-06-23 23:32 UTC by Duncan Harris
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Duncan Harris 2005-06-23 23:32:46 UTC
There are currently blocks on what you can and can't upload.  Anons can't upload 
anyting, clearly to stop them uploading all sorts of crap.  Logged in users and 
admins can upload any legitimate file (e.g. you can upload jpg, gif, png, ogg), but 
not (say) a source file of a diagram created in dia, which we might want to update 
later.

Since however we have admins who are trusted, can it be arranged so that admins can 
upload any file?  We can then arrange a system where users who aren't admins can then 
have their work checked before being uploaded.  I don't think that logged in users 
ought to able to do this because of the security implications, etc, but surely admins 
are trusted?
Comment 1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-06-24 01:07:59 UTC
Note that this is similar to admins being able to put arbitrary JavaScript into
the UI which we've been trying to eliminate.

Note also that this will become largely irrelevant when 1.5 rolls out, see bug 898:
Comment 2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-07-11 12:03:40 UTC
*** Bug 2793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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