Re: [Wikitech-l] AUTO: Naresh Kumar Nayyar is out of the office

2009-12-28 Thread Chad
One of these days mailman will learn to reject these
things :)

-Chad

On Dec 27, 2009 11:44 PM, "Soxred93"  wrote:

*facepalm*

On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:08 PM, naresh.kumar.nay...@us.elster.com wrote: > > I
am out of the office...
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Re: [Wikitech-l] AUTO: Naresh Kumar Nayyar is out of the office

2009-12-28 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Chad  wrote:
> One of these days mailman will learn to reject these
> things :)
>
> -Chad
Well you could do some agic with the spam filter but its designed to
only send it out once so if there wasn't people like us replying to
it, the message would die pretty fast.

-Peachey

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[Wikitech-l] mwEmbed gadget updates and improved subtitle support

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Dale
Wanted to do a quick mention of the updated mwEmbed gadget and subtitles 
support on the email list(s) in case people have missed its mention on 
the village pump [1] or other venues.

* On commons the "Commons:Timed_Text" and "Template:Closed_cap" have 
been started.

* oggHandler has been patched to support "itext" [2], [3] output so that 
it would not need to hit the api to get the list of available subtitles 
when we are embedding locally. Remote embedding outside of wikimedia 
domain grabs the up-to-date list of available tracks via an api call.

* A basic "Add timed text" interface is accessible from the "cc" button 
letting you "upload" an srt file.

* If you enable the mwEmbed gadget on English wikipedia ( or other 
wikipedias ) it will display commons subtitles in the respective 
wgUserLanguage. ( Interface translations are temporarly dissabled per 
bug 21947 which should be "resolvable" as soon as the release is branched.

* Even with extremely limited exposure the number of subtitle files is 
starting to grow: [4]

* The timedText display supports inline "wiki-text" so persons names, 
subjects and place of interest can be linked to their respective 
wikpedia articles in their respective languages from the srt text. [5]

* Gadget feedback has been very good. Big thanks to all that have helped 
test and especially User:84user with his very detailed reports ;)

And finally .. I imagine it ~may~ take some time before the mwEmbed 
stuff makes its way through code review and on by default deployment 
because of release branching and mwEmbed includes quite a few other 
components ... But similar to usability beta, and other gadgets we could 
let people do a much easier opt in. Which I will continue to look into 
in the mean time.

peace,
michael

[1] 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Improved_Close_Captions_Support
[2] http://www.annodex.net/~silvia/itext/
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/60458
[4] 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=102
[5] 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yochai_Benkler_-_On_Autonomy,_Control_and_Cultureal_Experience.ogg
**

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