Add Media Wizard and Firefogg on test.wikipedia.org
March 27th, 2009
I am inviting people to check out the add media wizard and Firefogg on test.wikipedia.org.To help test go to you user preferences on that server and enable the add media wizard gadget. You can add general feedback here
This post is cross posted on wikimedia tech blog
Basic Feature Overview:
add media wizard
The Add Media Wizard adds a little “add media” button to every edit page letting you open up media search system to inject images and movie clips into your page. Presently the media search system searches commons, archive.org and metavid.org. (note archive.org inserts are not yet working because of a redirect bug we should have that fixed soon).
firefog logo
Firefogg is the really cool extension that everyone using open video on the web should know about! It packages ffmpeg2theora transcoder letting web sites trigger clients uploads of videos from whatever local format they have. Once you have enabled the add media wizard the site upload form gets a little use Firefogg button. Which you can use to enable the transcoder.
You may also want to see Brianna’s blog post made early this year about these media features. Stay tuned for wider gadget deployment 
… if your can’t wait you can always add
importScriptURI('http://metavid.org/w/js2/remoteMwEmbed.js');
to your User:UserName/monobook.js page. (this will enable firefogg uploads… but we have not yet enabled copy by url uploads on the other sites so you can’t import resources from archive sites yet)
10 Comments Add your own
1. Add Media Wizard and Fire&hellip | March 27th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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2. Ian | March 27th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Hi,
Just noticed there isn’t an entry for “Firefogg” in Wikipedia proper. I didn’t know what it was and searched the WP. It seems like this will be really useful, I am excited about it. Is it too early for a WP article on Firefogg?
3. j | March 28th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Ian: why dont you start an article? for now just nobody cared to write one.
4. Ian Wojtowicz | April 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I was in Santa Cruz a few weeks ago when you gave a demo of Metavid to the prospective grad students. It blew me away. This is such a fantastic service.
I just ran across a conference that you should definitely be at:
http://gov2summit.com/
It’s run by O’Reilly Press. It should be great.
Maybe I’ll see you there.
Ian
5. Yorkie Dogs | May 8th, 2009 at 11:10 am
This is definitely some very sweet stuff…
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8. John | July 11th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Tried to go to test.wikpedia and got nowhere is it broken or is the link wrong?
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