[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

[Brion Vibber]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 September 2011 21:44, Michael Dale <mdale at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > It will be a lot easier to import from YouTube once Timed media handler
> adds support for webm to commons. If you check out the wikivideo-l and
> commons lists for some recent example YouTube to commons scripts.  I know
> this is not super useful info right this second, but there is hope on the
> horizon.
>
>
> How's Timed Media Handler (which will also allow WebM/VP8) going? ETA?
>

The code exists and has been revamped a few times in response to reviews,
but I'm not sure whether there are actually any assigned resources for
pushing it to production at this time.

Robla, Erik, can you clarify state on this? Is TMH deployment on the radar
for the next few months, or does it still need to get put on the map?
There's some notes on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TimedMediaHandler/statusabout earlier
discussion of a September-ish production test, but not sure if
that's current.

-- brion