oEmbed indeed looks interesting; this is the first time I heard about it. :)
I'll note for the record that while not exactly an oEmbed implementation, the YouTube extension [1] has allowed the <youtube>some YouTube URL goes here</youtube> syntax for embedding YT videos since late 2013 [2]. This isn't exactly advertised on any of the related documentation pages, though (bug #1 and all that stuff). Likewise, this syntax isn't available for any of the smaller providers as someone who speaks regex natively has to write the regexes for those (patches welcome!). On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, the video namespace is an interesting approach. Has anyone considered trying instead of <tag>opaque string</tag>, something like <embed> url here </embed>, which than tries to use oEmbed to embed whatever is at the url? Most video sharing site support oEmbed.
--bawolff
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube [2] https://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FYouTube/7acd1d...
Thanks and regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer