Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Laurent Savaete
You may want to look at the ogghandler extension, it works for sure with free formats like ogg theora, not sure for others though. It's used on wikipedia, so stable enough. Cheers, Laurent On 6/1/10, Ekompute .info ekomp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have never uploaded any video files because it

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Dave butlerdi
In my experiences I am always better off uploading video to YouTube, Vimeo or others and then just using extensions to display them. On 1 June 2010 08:23, Laurent Savaete laurent.sava...@googlemail.comwrote: You may want to look at the ogghandler extension, it works for sure with free formats

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi, thanks for the response. How do I convert a file from mpg to ogg? PM Poon On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Laurent Savaete laurent.sava...@googlemail.com wrote: You may want to look at the ogghandler extension, it works for sure with free formats like ogg theora, not sure for others

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi Dave, thanks for your response. Problem is the video files are copyrighted and I am just archiving it for my own usage. PM Poon On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dave butlerdi butle...@gmail.com wrote: In my experiences I am always better off uploading video to YouTube, Vimeo or others and

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Dave butlerdi
There are several media converters if you google. You can also try downloading the Adobe Media Encoder as a 30 trial. I believe this will convert formats. On 1 June 2010 08:32, Ekompute .info ekomp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dave, thanks for your response. Problem is the video files are

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Uploading video files

2010-06-01 Thread Ekompute .info
Hi thanks, I manage to find a free converter from mpg to ogg from Google. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dave butlerdi butle...@gmail.com wrote: There are several media converters if you google. You can also try downloading the Adobe Media Encoder as a 30 trial. I believe this will convert

[Mediawiki-l] Sort a group of sections automatically

2010-06-01 Thread Juan Jesús Cremades Monserrat
Hi, If I have a group of Level 2 Headings, does it exists some meaning to sort automatically? Thanks ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

[Mediawiki-l] Default path variable for extension directory

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Steiner
I tried to install three wiki instances on the same server, using same extension file resources. Following the advice at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Scenario_5:_Multiple_wi kis_sharing_common_resources I declared a new variable $wgExtensionPath. Including extensions this

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-06-01 Thread Chad
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:02 AM, bern...@bernardhulsman.nl bern...@bernardhulsman.nl wrote: There is your wish, and from others, to continue in an other newgroup. Can you tell me which newsgroup I have to use about the morals standards of the community developing and installing MediaWiki?

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-06-01 Thread oscar
9. Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you write from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments_of_Computer_Ethics#The_Commandments very best, oscar -- *edito ergo sum* ** The information contained in this message is confidential and may be

Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{cquote}}

2010-06-01 Thread Steve VanSlyck
FOR TIM STARLING - Is this message properly threaded? On 5/8/2010 10:19, Platonides wrote: There's no image. They are big coloured double quotes: td style=color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px;

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Moral standards

2010-06-01 Thread Tisane
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:41 PM, oscar os...@wikimedia.org wrote: 9. Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you write from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments_of_Computer_Ethics#The_Commandments very best, oscar Those commandments are pretty lame,