+
+> You know, you don't need to check the files into revision control, they
+> can just be put in the srcdir of the wiki outside revision control.
+
+To try to formalize and clarify my first proposal: An administrator would
+be able for each wiki to create a list of off-wiki "places" that are
+accessed via certain items in the wiki root (or could be under a subpage
+too of course). The example is illustrated by publicfiles and the symlink,
+but a non-symlink solution would probably be better. A natural way to
+specify off-wiki places are absolute URLs, but also relative to the wiki
+root, since that would fit to my case. Just like you can't go out of the
+wiki root, you should not be able to go up from such an external resource.
+This should all be done in some plugin of course. I'll have to learn Perl
+before I write the plugin though :) --ulrik