Hello Wikimedia community,
I just wanted to send an announcement to this list regarding a GSoC project proposal I am planning to submit with the Wikimedia foundation as the mentoring organization. I've been discussing the project with the MetaVidWiki community, but in case there is some broader interest I wanted to run it by here as well.
Excerpt from the proposal:
I propose to do a number of modifications to MetaVidWiki [1] (an existing MediaWiki extension for the annotation of video content), with the common goal of improving the ease in which users can add their own video content to the Wiki.
The specific tasks are: * making the process of video uploading to a MetaVidWiki system an easy one-step process (currently, uploading a video file to the system requires several non-trivial steps) * adding the ability to use / annotate externally hosted video (from sites such as archive.org and YouTube)
The full project proposal is at: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/proposal.html
And the beginnings of some supplemental material here: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/
Please let me know if you have any feedback regarding the project / proposal.
Kind regards,
Stjepan
Does MetaVidWiki already support external video services?
I've already got a WikiVid extension which revolves around the use of external videos being embedded into the page. It's got more features than any of the other video embedding, and can support any video service you want as it supports Service classes instead of hardcoding the code for embedding videos.
It's actually quite close to complete. I just need to get PHP working on my webserver before I can show it off.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Stjepan Rajko wrote:
Hello Wikimedia community,
I just wanted to send an announcement to this list regarding a GSoC project proposal I am planning to submit with the Wikimedia foundation as the mentoring organization. I've been discussing the project with the MetaVidWiki community, but in case there is some broader interest I wanted to run it by here as well.
Excerpt from the proposal:
I propose to do a number of modifications to MetaVidWiki [1] (an existing MediaWiki extension for the annotation of video content), with the common goal of improving the ease in which users can add their own video content to the Wiki.
The specific tasks are: * making the process of video uploading to a MetaVidWiki system an easy one-step process (currently, uploading a video file to the system requires several non-trivial steps) * adding the ability to use / annotate externally hosted video (from sites such as archive.org and YouTube)
The full project proposal is at: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/proposal.html
And the beginnings of some supplemental material here: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/
Please let me know if you have any feedback regarding the project / proposal.
Kind regards,
Stjepan
[1] http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/
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It will work with the MetaVidWiki extension... which is a bit different than a traditional video embed since all media is given a temporal wiki namepsace so that transcripts/subtitles, translations and temporal metadata can be applied to arbitrary time segments of the video stream. You can learn more about metavid at metavid.org
--michael
DanTMan wrote:
Does MetaVidWiki already support external video services?
I've already got a WikiVid extension which revolves around the use of external videos being embedded into the page. It's got more features than any of the other video embedding, and can support any video service you want as it supports Service classes instead of hardcoding the code for embedding videos.
It's actually quite close to complete. I just need to get PHP working on my webserver before I can show it off.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Stjepan Rajko wrote:
Hello Wikimedia community,
I just wanted to send an announcement to this list regarding a GSoC project proposal I am planning to submit with the Wikimedia foundation as the mentoring organization. I've been discussing the project with the MetaVidWiki community, but in case there is some broader interest I wanted to run it by here as well.
Excerpt from the proposal:
I propose to do a number of modifications to MetaVidWiki [1] (an existing MediaWiki extension for the annotation of video content), with the common goal of improving the ease in which users can add their own video content to the Wiki.
The specific tasks are: * making the process of video uploading to a MetaVidWiki system an easy one-step process (currently, uploading a video file to the system requires several non-trivial steps) * adding the ability to use / annotate externally hosted video (from sites such as archive.org and YouTube)
The full project proposal is at: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/proposal.html
And the beginnings of some supplemental material here: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/
Please let me know if you have any feedback regarding the project / proposal.
Kind regards,
Stjepan
[1] http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/
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