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.
Skoffer.com WordPress plugin
I really like the idea of Skoffer.com. With this post I like to introduce you to my “Skoffer.com One Click Screencasting” plugin for WordPress. If you want to use screencasting on your blog, this could be for you.
A short video how it works:
This video shows how to insert a screencast with the WordPress plugin:
This is the video that gets recorded during the above screencast:
How to install the plugin:
That´s a thing of less than 30 seconds.
Just download the zip-file, extract it and upload the folder “skoffer” to your “wp-content/plugins” folder of your WordPress installation.
Please log in to your WordPress Administration, go to the “Plugins” page and activtate the plugin. That was all.
If needed: please read the included ReadMe.txt file how to change the size of the video player that displays the screencasts.
How to use the plugin:
You should find a new button on the write-page, to insert screencasts.
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
[skoffer123456789]
, where the 123456789 is the video id. (actually there is a space between the word skoffer and the video id but I can´t write that because I have the plugin installed on this Blog, and the plugin would try to insert a video if I would write it correctly 
)
If you now save and preview the post, you should 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_wordpress_plugin.zip
Anything else:
Yes, I hope you enjoy it and report bugs and feature requests.