Extension:Add Media Wizard

Add Media Wizard is a platform for inserting media assets into pages and sequences. It vastly simplifies the process of importing compatible licensed assets into the given wiki. It provides an inline insert wizard in page & sequence editing. Once invoked it lets you search multiple repositories and automatically handles the complexity of importing those assets with appropriate asset description template structure provided by the repository.

Ways the add media wizard can be invoked
The add media wizard can be invoked in normal pages via inclusion of the add_media_wizard "gadget" or user script. You can probably use the add_media_wizard on your mediaWiki based wiki as well. (more documentation on that shortly).

The add media wizard also works with the Sequencer for adding media to sequences.

Supported Clip/Image Manipulations
Presently only the "crop" feature is supported. The pixastic-lib has been imported and soon aim to add a layered image manipulation tool interface for doing other image manipulations. We also want to add features for adding "text" and styling it with css. Text should be parsed by mediaWiki allowing for template usage of the figure engine.

Supported Remote Repositories

 * Commons The commons archive when used on mediaWiki sites or sites with commons installed as a remote repository can inject the media directly into the page. Otherwise the assets are automatically imported via copybyurl functionality of mediaWiki.


 * Archive.org support right now is kind of limited a lot of work could be done on incorporation all of archive.orgs advanced search functionality. Would also be nice to improve support for grabbing audio segments from archive.org collections.


 * Metavid.org also support is limited to basic searching. We should eventually add in support for metavid.org advanced search ie show me times senator $A mentioned word $B in date range $C debating bill $D ). Or even more desirable is integrating into a general semantic mediaWiki json based query system with auto discovery of queriable properties.

Related
also see Media Projects Overview to see how the add media wizard fits into the larger scheme of things.

To Do List / feature requests
see Things_to_do on talk page