This is an umbrella bug report for a set of recurring bugs that we have accepted for a long time, but which have increasingly become obstacles to both normal sharing of educational files on the projects, and to onboarding new community members who work with documents or data. (Because why should they join a community that does not accept their work?)
0) Add FileFormats tag.
> There are hundreds of file formats we should eventually support; the slow response to dozens of past bugs on related issues is in part related to the disarray of documentation about where and how support for new formats can be implemented. Work on things like finessing tabular-data support (into a new namespace) (on Commons only) should also get this tag.
1) Add Data and Documents as categories in Commons search.
> (Currently it has Images, Audio, Video, and Other Media -- add Documents, Data, before Other)
2) Add upload support for essential document file formats
> (Currently we support only PDF, arguable the least open of all of these)
- 2.1) Add .RDF support
- 2.2) Add .ODT support
- 2.3) Add .EPUB format
3) Add upload support for essential data file formats
(Currently we support NO STRUCTURED DATA FORMATS AT ALL, despite using them in every technical part of our workflow)
- 3.1) Add .CSV support
- 3.2) Add .JSON support
- 3.3) Add .XML support
- 3.4) Add .SQLite support (very widely used, selected as an archival format by the Library of Congress)
- 3.5) Add .ODS support ( #T45151 )