Well we already have a namespace of course, and indeed I was already
considering converting that to a ContentModel. The only thing that is
somewhat problematic here is the multiple languages problem. Currently each
language get it's own page and title. Do we switch the model to host all
subtitles in the same 'page' ? That will require a lot of UI and flags etc.
Current system:
DJ
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman
<
d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As part of Brion's and mine struggle for
better A/V support on
Wikipedia, I
have concluded that our current support for
subtitles is rather...
improvised.
Currently all our SRT files are referenced from HTML using action=raw.
But
then not actually used from action=raw, but
instead served up as semi
html
using api.php. Which is ridiculous...
If we want to move to more HTML5 compliancy, we also will want to switch
from the SRT format to the VTT format.
Ideally, I want to host multiple subtitle formats, and dynamically
serve/convert them as either SRT or VTT. These can be directly referenced
from a <track> element so that we are fully compatible.
The question is now, how to best do this. The endpoint needs to be
dynamic,
cacheable, allow multiple content types etc.
Ideas suggested have been:
* Api.php
* Restbase
* New endpoint
* ResourceLoader modules
I'm listing the current problems, future requirements and discussing
several ideas at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/TimedTextRework?…
If you have any ideas or remarks, please
contribute them !
I propose adding an additional associated namespace (like Talk:), except
for subtitles. The namespace will be associated with File pages which
represent videos, and it will be coupled to a ContentHandler class
representing subtitle content. The ContentHandler class will be a natural
place for validation logic and the specification of an alternate editing
interface suitable for editing subtitles.
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