[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hello All I'm happy to announce the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up will happen April 3.-5. in Berlin, at the c-base. The event is for everyone who works on MediaWiki, writes extensions, builds bots, writes scripts for the toolserver, or is otherwise interested in the technical aspects of Wikimedia. W

[Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
Mike Baynton asked about some server side transcoding code he has worked on this seems appropriate for wikitech-l so I have cc'ed it here. The current direction is to encourage in-browser client side transcoding. This offloads the costs of server side transcoding and maximizes quality letting u

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Who says that the meet-up at FOSDEM will fail?? With people from the USA, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Great Britain arriving with MediaWiki on their mind, it can hardly be called a failed meet up. I am also quite sure that if you want to talk about MediaWiki localisation and internat

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/17/09 6:44 PM, Jackey Tse wrote: > can't save summary? Should work. Does it behave differently to what you expect? -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] leading newlines are removed one by one on every edit

2009-01-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/17/09 4:13 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > I just realized that if a page has leading newlines, on every page edit > exactly one line is removed. This is no expected behaviour, is it? I'd > expect, that a null edit does not change the page. This is bug 12130: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Mike.lifeguard
>The current direction is to encourage in-browser client side >transcoding. This offloads the costs of server side transcoding and >maximizes quality letting us supply the transcode settings for >generating theora files from the HD or DV source. Instead of users >uploading intermediary format at l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: [snip] > into the appropriate derivative files. This is certainly a lot > easier than asking the user to do it (most have no sweet clue, > and even experienced users are in over their head), You're missing a major component of this. The who

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > This does > client side transcoding, but as far as the user can tell it's all done > by the server except no long transmission time for his 14gbyte DV > movie. (although, perhaps a long transcoding time. :) ) > At some talks here a FOMS (foundations of open source me

Re: [Wikitech-l] Client side transcoding with firefogg (early testing)...

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
opps bad url for add_media_wizard try: importScriptURI('http://mvbox2.cse.ucsc.edu/w/extensions/MetavidWiki/skins/add_media_wizard.js'); --michael Michael Dale wrote: > While the upload API is under development / stabilization ... I hacked > in basic firefogg upload support to the add_media_wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Gerard Meijssen schrieb: > Hoi, > Who says that the meet-up at FOSDEM will fail?? With people from the USA, > the Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Great Britain arriving with MediaWiki > on their mind, it can hardly be called a failed meet up. I am also quite > sure that if you want to talk about