James Salsman wrote:
My contributions for audio recording uploads are not ready because they depend on the upload redesign and client-side Flash. I am still waiting to hear from anyone why the current state of Flash is any less closed than that of Java. I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt that people have simply not researched the situation with Adobe's current public documentation and license along with the state of Haxe and Gnash, but in the mean time I can wait for the upload redesign before I take up that issue in earnest. I'm also trying to raise money for Gnash developers to make that particular hurdle a complete non-issue.
Perhaps there are Mediawiki users other than the Foundation who would not be opposed to the use of Flash for microphone audio upload?
Best regards, James Salsman
I was going to mention the <device> element, but I see you have also been active about microphone recording in whatwg list. If you can get Mozilla to implement the microphone recording for the Media Capture API, it should be feasible to have Wikimedia Commons as the first serious server using it.