On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se 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 p858snake@gmail.com 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_Medi... but I don't see the feature being added to the edit toolbar by the extension.
Helder