MarioWiki:Proposals

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Ban OGG Extension (Not Format)
The *.ogg extension is a generic extension to describe the *.oga and *.ogv file formats. To put that into perspective, that would be like clumping all *.jpg, *.png, and *.gif file extensions to be under *.img or something. To make things more easily identifiable on MarioWiki, I propose that *.ogg be a banned extension for a file of this type when uploading. Sure, MediaWiki can detect the MIME type regardless of extension, but that's not immediately clear when sifting through categories.

To be clear, I am not looking to ban the format, just the one extension of the format. OGA and OGV are perfectly safe. There are around 1,000 files to check and move. Let's get them changed before we end up with a insurmountable amount of files to make changes to. I think Pywikibot can do this stuff automatically.

Files tested to be moved successfully:
 * File:VBWL-Title Screen Theme.ogg to File:VBWL-Title Screen Theme.oga
 * File:SMS Opening.ogg to File:SMS Opening.ogv

Categories to sift through:
 * Category:Fair use music samples
 * Category:Fair use video samples

Affected templates that need consideration:
 * - Update it to allow for OGA and OGV as well? Code for row one but apply similar code for each row after it:
 * - Behaves like  but for OGA only
 * - Behaves like  but for OGV only
 * - Only works for files with extension OGG. Deprecate it?

Related proposals:
 * Proposals/Archive 29

Proposer: Deadline: May 02, 2017, 23:59:59 GMT

Support

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 * 2) Per proposal.

Comments
Sort of related...do we still need ? I thought browsers supported this by default. -- 17:43, 25 April 2017 (EDT)
 * With HTML5 supported video playback with the version of MediaWiki MarioWiki uses, that feature seems worthy of . -- 18:01, 25 April 2017 (EDT)

And what exactly is the difference between .oga and .ogv? Is it really significant enough to warrant banning the .ogg extension? This should really be further elaborated upon for those less experienced. 03:01, 26 April 2017 (EDT)
 * Technically, no difference between *.ogg, *.oga, and *.ogv. They are all defined by one standard, as I linked at the very beginning of the proposal. For MarioWiki, it would make maintenance easier by making all files by the standard easily identifiable by file extension rather than by MIME type. We should assign *.og a  for  a udio, assign *.og v  for  v ideo, and forbid *.ogg rather than use the extensions interchangeably with audio and video data streams. By posing these restrictions, we can integrate and  better than what is currently being done with the restrictive  for *.ogg files only. -- 04:33, 26 April 2017 (EDT)

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