Skoffer.com Mediawiki Plugin
I like the idea of Skoffer.com pretty much (like you probably noticed when you read my article “I love Skoffer.com“). Anyway, I made a few plugins for popular website software to expand them with the function to insert screencasts with only one click.
With this post I like to introduce you to the MediaWiki plugin. The Wikimedia users Iubito and Assela were a great help because of this (I could learn how to embed a video in MediaWiki content very quickly with that) and this (I could learn how to insert a new button to the toolbar via Javascript from this extensions´s file “mainfile.js”).
Here´s a demo video:
This one shows how to record a screencast with the MediaWiki plugin:
This is the screencast which was recorded in the video above:
How to install the plugin:
Here´s the content of the ReadMe.txt file which is included in the zip file of the plugin.
Please upload the folder “skoffer” from the zip-file you downloaded into the folder “extensions” on your webspace.
To activate the plugin, download your file “LocalSettings.php” from your webspace, add the line below to the end of the file (use you favourite texteditor for that), and upload it again.require_once(’extensions/skoffer/skoffer.php’);
Please open your Wiki in your Webbrowser and login as an Administrator. Type “MediaWiki:Common.js” in the searchbox and click on “Go”.
Click on the “edit” (maybe it says “create” instead of “edit”) button just like everytime you want to edit a page (it´s not important if the page is empty or already has content).
Copy and paste the content of the file “Code for Common.js.txt” to the bottom of the page and save.THAT WAS ALL. You should find a new button on the edit-page to insert screencasts. I hope you like using the plugin.
Please check http://www.stefanschulzesteinmann.com/skoffer-mediawiki-plugin/ for the latest version of this plugin. [...]
How to use the plugin:
When you edit a page of your wiki, you will find a new button:
Just click it to start the screencast-recorder. The usage of the screencast-recorder is self-explaining so don´t worry. The screencast will automatically be inserted after you recorded it. It will be something like
<skoffer>123456789</skoffer>
, where the 123456789 is the video id.
After you saved (or previewed) your changes to the page of your wiki you will see the actual video you recorded.
Where to download the plugin:
The latest version will always be available from
http://www.stefanschulzesteinmann.com/downloads/
current_skoffer_mediawiki_plugin.zip
Anything else:
Yes, please have fun with it and report bugs and feature requests.
