Extension:Add Media Wizard

Add Media Wizard is an extension which allows a user to add media into pages. It vastly simplifies importing compatible licensed media into a wiki. It includes an inline insert wizard in page and sequence editing. Once installed it lets you search multiple repositories and automatically handles the complexity of importing the media with appropriate asset description template structure provided by the repository.

Enable add media wizard ( per project )
You can enable the add media wizard on the English Wikipedia enable page (Note: This link may not display properly in Safari/OSX, "Enable_the_Add_Media_Wizard?withJS=MediaWiki:MwEmbed.js" is the correct epitaph.

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

 * Wikimedia 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 copy by URL 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 (i.e. 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