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MediaWiki Skins Design

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MediaWiki Skins Design

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
MediaWiki Skins Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

YouTube in MediaWiki


YouTube (http://youtube.com) is a video sharing website that allows registered users to upload videos, and allows visitors to watch streamed videos that are categorized by tags. A feature useful to JazzMeet is that the videos can be embedded in external websites, by inserting the code provided on the video's page in to your own website. The code looks similar to the following example:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U4FAKRpUCYY&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U4FAKRpUCYY&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

This isn't particularly useful for MediaWiki, though, since you don't (generally) want videos in the template itself, but in the content area, where the HTML is presented as text within the document:

MediaWiki Extension...