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 1.5: More HTML5

Maybe it is the syntax? <video poster="Relache_039.jpg" controls> <source src='Relache_039_Dance.webm' type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'/> <source src=Relache_039_Dance.ogv' type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'/> <source src='Relache_039_Dance.mp4' type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4D401E, mp4a.40.2"'/> <p>Or try this link [http://dekalborama.com/mediawiki/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Relache_039_Dance.flv a link] if the video doesn't play.</p> </video>

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 (Huge!)
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.
• Safari 5.1.4 = Yes! On both Mac OS X Snow Leopard and PC Vista
• IE 7 = Nope, not even after the MIME adjustment. Not even a box....

Thanks to Video for Everybody for a few hints. Adding MIME types to .htaccess, for example.... Now, what to do about IE7 since I cannot get Flash fallback to work?

First uploaded even more formats to see if IE can be fooled:

1. Relache_039_Dance.flv
2. Relache_039_Dance.avi (Also huge!)

Drat!

Take4: jwplayer standalone....

JW Player goes here

<script type="text/javascript" src="extensions/HTML5video/jwplayer/jwplayer.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jwplayer("mediaplayer").setup({ flashplayer: "extensions/HTML5video/jwplayer/jwplayer/player.swf", file: "extensions/HTML5video/videos/Relache_039_Dance.flv", image: "jwplayer/preview.jpg" }); </script>

Oh, well....

Take5: MediawikiPlayer embedding

First an MPEG 4 file:

<mediaplayer width='320' height='240' autostart='false' id='0'>File:Relache_039_Dance.mp4</mediaplayer>

Then Flash:

<mediaplayer width='320' height='240' autostart='false' id='1'>File:Relache_039_Dance.flv</mediaplayer>

Last resort

Well, there's always a link!