Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to spin. But this stopped when I deactivated the mwEmbed gadget. Is something broken? When mwEmbed is activated, the bottom of my browser says "Connecting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..." This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org. Several other gadgets work just fine.
The gadget should be updated, prototype has finally be killed off (December 14th it happened).
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to spin. But this stopped when I deactivated the mwEmbed gadget. Is something broken? When mwEmbed is activated, the bottom of my browser says "Connecting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..." This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org. Several other gadgets work just fine.
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AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info.
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to spin. But this stopped when I deactivated the mwEmbed gadget. Is something broken? When mwEmbed is activated, the bottom of my browser says "Connecting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..." This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org. Several other gadgets work just fine.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdale#mwEmbed_2
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:42 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info.
I don't think so. The gadget allowed the use of the Add Media Wizard, as described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enable_the_Add_Media_Wizard#Add_Medi... but I don't see the feature being added to the edit toolbar by the extension.
Helder
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Helder . helder.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Lately, when I visit a Wikipedia page, it just doesn't stop loading. The indication in Firefox (on Linux) just continued to spin. But this stopped when I deactivated the mwEmbed gadget. Is something broken? When mwEmbed is activated, the bottom of my browser says "Connecting to prototype.wikimedia.org ..." This was observed on sv.wikipedia.org. Several other gadgets work just fine.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdale#mwEmbed_2
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:42 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK its replaced by a extension anyway, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MwEmbed for more info.
I don't think so. The gadget allowed the use of the Add Media Wizard, as described on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enable_the_Add_Media_Wizard#Add_Medi... but I don't see the feature being added to the edit toolbar by the extension.
That feature never worked right, so it was probably left out. There are still lots of cool usability improvements to the edit window from 2008 that haven't been enabled or used, but in a custom install, they can be turned on and some are quite nice.
The video player still looks ugly (by the way) compared to a YouTube/Vimeo or even a standard Kaltura player...
Helder
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On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 22:36 -0700, Mono wrote:
The video player still looks ugly (by the way) compared to a YouTube/Vimeo or even a standard Kaltura player...
Assuming you refer to the "new" player [1]: If you have specific improvements in mind, please feel free to file enhancement requests in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org against product "MediaWiki extensions" and component "TimedMediaHandler". Thanks!
andre
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video-...
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