Sandbox

• A place to play.
• A place to spawn new pages.
• A place to test what works.

Setting up for spam filters....

• My_spam_blacklist
• My_spam_whitelist

See whether these exist....

Setting up templates for submissions and linkings

• Template:Artifact
• Template:Event
• Template:Manifesto
• Template:Group
• ...and creating Template:Ephemera transclusion page....

Let's test it:

...and Ephemera02

Creating Collection of Tim Blickhan

Band pages
• Create a Neoteric Ensemble page...
• Create a Potato Engineers page...

In memoriam
• Create Barbara Bullock
• Create Harry Castle
• Create Jim Slenger

Video experiments

Can we use HTML5 as hinted at elsewhere?

Take 1: HTML5 tagging <video>

     <source type="video/mp4" src="Relache_039_Dance.mp4" />
     <source type="video/ogg" src="Relache_039_Dance.ogv" />

</video> Hmmm. Need to install some stuff....

Take 2: mwEmbed/Kaltura

It seems this has been displaced by commercial elements.

Take 3: HTML5video extension

<HTML5video type="HTML5" width="320" height="240" autoplay="false" loop="false">Relache_039_Dance</HTML5video>

Uploaded three versions of the video:

1. Relache_039_Dance.mp4
2. Relache_039_Dance.ogv
3. Relache_039_Dance.webm

Hopeful, but challenged. Results so far:

• Android 2.3.6 = Yes! Plays in its own window.
• Chrome 17.0 = Yes! On PC running Vista Enterprise
• Firefox 11.0 = Yes! Only after pushing MIME types as below.
• IE 7 = Nope, not even after the MIME adjustment. Not even a box....
• Safari 5.1.4 = Yes! On both Mac OS X Snow Leopard and PC Vista

Thanks to Video for Everybody for a few hints. Adding MIME types to .htaccess, for example.... Now, what to do about IE7 when Flash fallback doesn't work?

For example, this crazy bunch of lines suggested by DVDVideoSoft:

<object id="player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="player_flv_mini.swf" width="320" height="240"> <a href="http://dekalborama.com/mediawiki/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Relache_039_Dance.flv">Relache 039</a> <param name="movie" value="player_flv_mini.swf" /> <param name="wmode" value="opaque" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="menu" value="true" /> <param name="autoplay" value="false" /> <param name="autoload" value="false" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="flv=01.flv&width=320&height=240&autoplay=0 &autoload=0&buffer=5&playercolor=000000&loadingcolor=838383&buttoncolor=ffffff &slidercolor=ffffff" /> </object>