[GRASS-user] grass wiki problems on osgeo.org

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:09 AM, wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> hello,
>
> i have two problems with grass wiki hosted on osgeo.org
>
> 1. cannot upload .tar.gz files. when i am trying to upload
>   .tar.gz file, then i am getting the error
>
>    ".gz" is not a permitted file type. Permitted file types are gif, png,
>    jpg, jpeg, , tar.gz.
>
>   also it would be probably nice to attach zip files to not scary windows
>   users with .tar.gz ;) .tar.bz2 could be cool too probably :]

Well, how high is the risk to get evil in through zip files?

> 2. references does not work as described at
>
>        http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes
>
>   the cite extension is missing
>
>        http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite
>
> is there any chance that above things could be fixed... how can i help?

If Martin agrees (he made the Wiki setup) the Extension:Cite would be
nice to have...

Markus