On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, there are docs. Please edit and link from other pages. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Hangout_meetings
Interesting, I didn't know about this page.
Tech Talks use Google Hangout on Air, which is a slightly different kind of beast. Our process is documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event and the page welcomes edits.
The video can be watched from the Google+ URL that we are advertising. If for whatever reason you prefer to watch it in YouTube, that page also contains a link to the corresponding YouTube page, under "Links". If it makes sense, I would prefer to avoid sending two different URLs in our announcements pointing to the same video.
On Jun 10, 2014 10:19 AM, "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
The video can be watched from the Google+ URL that we are advertising.
Even if not logged in? Please double check with a clean cookie jar.
(Seems to just give me a login prompt. No chance to play the video. I just trued with the wikifont link.)
If for whatever reason you prefer to watch it in YouTube, that page also contains a link to the corresponding YouTube page, under "Links". If it makes sense, I would prefer to avoid sending two different URLs in our announcements pointing to the same video.
Maybe then the youtube link should be the primary link advertised.
Also, more general question: emails are nice but how about an onwiki page per event? Email could link to that and maybe youtube too and then for extra links like plus you would have to go to the wiki to get them.
-Jeremy
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Jun 10, 2014 10:19 AM, "Quim Gil" <qgil@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','qgil@wikimedia.org');> wrote:
The video can be watched from the Google+ URL that we are advertising.
Even if not logged in? Please double check with a clean cookie jar.
After saying good-bye to my entire collection of convenient cookies... I can still access https://plus.google.com/events/chpgv8usjd6dn38on07njjk28hg as anonymous users, and from there I can play the video and I can find the YouTube link under "Links".
(Seems to just give me a login prompt. No chance to play the video. I just trued with the wikifont link.)
Anybody else willing to test, please?
If for whatever reason you prefer to watch it in YouTube, that page also contains a link to the corresponding YouTube page, under "Links". If it makes sense, I would prefer to avoid sending two different URLs in our announcements pointing to the same video.
Maybe then the youtube link should be the primary link advertised.
Also, more general question: emails are nice but how about an onwiki page per event? Email could link to that and maybe youtube too and then for extra links like plus you would have to go to the wiki to get them.
The Google+ page is automatically created when we schedule a hangout, and it can have the description and links required. It is not perfect but it saves us one of the many steps we have to do to announce an event, which are just too many. I used to create those wiki pages, and I felt it was too much work for too little return.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Jun 10, 2014 10:19 AM, "Quim Gil" <qgil@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','qgil@wikimedia.org');> wrote:
The video can be watched from the Google+ URL that we are advertising.
Even if not logged in? Please double check with a clean cookie jar.
After saying good-bye to my entire collection of convenient cookies... I can still access https://plus.google.com/events/chpgv8usjd6dn38on07njjk28hg as anonymous users, and from there I can play the video and I can find the YouTube link under "Links".
(Seems to just give me a login prompt. No chance to play the video. I
just
trued with the wikifont link.)
Anybody else willing to test, please?
Works for me in Firefox private mode, and Chromium which I seldom use so it's not logged in to Google stuff.
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