SVG files in the wiki

[Ian Weller]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>> One of the awesome features in MediaWiki is its ability to display SVG 
>>> graphics, poth in the special image pages and embedded anywhere, like 
>>> this:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fedora_logo.svg
>> 
>> Aughh!!! My question is WHY is there an SVG logo of the Fedora logo on 
>> wikipedia??
>
> Heh! I linked to that specific image on purpose, wondering if anyone 
> will ask about trademarks :p
>
> I believe you noticed their disclaimer about trademark and the link to 
> Fedora trademark guidelines and policies. IANL, so don't know if this is 
> good enough but I imagine the possible outcome of a take down request.
>
Regardless of trademark issues, we have tried being able to render SVGs
automatically and it failed spetacularly.  I imagine we will try again
soon. -- ian