[Mediawiki-l] Flash extension for MW; any problems with recent MW versions? Any plans to incorporate into MW?

[Fernando Correia]

2007/2/13, Ken McDonald <ken at pixologic.com>:
> We'd like to start using the very nice Flash plugin on our site; we do
> 3D graphics, and explanatory movies would be very useful to us.
>
> At the moment we're using 1.6.8; since the plugin works on 1.6.3, I'm
> assuming (without testing, naughty me) that it will also work on 1.6.8.
> Are there any problems with subsquent versions of MW? We'll be upgrading
> soon.
>
> This will be a major commitment on our part; we need to make sure that
> this or some other Flash ability will remain part of MW in the future.
> Are there any plans to incorporate it as a part of the core MW distro?
> Alternatively, is the codebase for it small enough and simple enough
> that a PHP hacker (not me, I'm a Python guy, but we have another PHP
> guy) could likely fix problems that might arise in the future?

You could consider the Flash Extension I wrote. It works on newer
versions of MediaWiki.

I don't know if it would work on an old version like 1.6. Maybe; you
could try it.

You also could try to make a local copy of your wiki on your PC and
try to upgrade it to the latest version.

I did an upgrade today from 1.8.2 to 1.9.2 on our production wiki and
all went very well.

The Flash extension is:

Extension:LinkSwf
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkSwf