On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Helder . <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop
> > loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued
> > to spin. But this stopped when I deactivated the mwEmbed gadget.
> > Is something broken? When mwEmbed is activated, the bottom
> > of my browser says "Connecting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..."
> > This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org.
> > Several other gadgets work just fine.
>
> See also:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdale#mwEmbed_2
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:42 AM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info.
>
> I don't think so. The gadget allowed the use of the Add Media Wizard,
> as described on
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enable_the_Add_Media_Wizard#Add_Media_Wizard
> but I don't see the feature being added to the edit toolbar by the
> extension.
>

That feature never worked right, so it was probably left out. There are
still lots of cool usability improvements to the edit window from 2008 that
haven't been enabled or used, but in a custom install, they can be turned
on and some are quite nice.

The video player still looks ugly (by the way) compared to a YouTube/Vimeo
or even a standard Kaltura player...


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