On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
On Jun 10, 2014 10:19 AM, "Quim Gil"
<qgil(a)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.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil