ExternalVideo is a MediaWiki extension for embedding videos from external providers into MediaWiki. Whilst there are some extensions to embed videos in MediaWiki, these do not fit our needs.
Namely, we wanted a way to natively embed these videos in MediaWiki galleries. Extension:Video does this by adding its own <videogallery> tag, but this does not allow mixing with regular images, and that extension is not stable.
ExternalVideo is also planned to display the videos on their respective file pages, rather than creating a new special page. This avoids all of the extra processing and mess that Extension:Video does, and allows us to rely on MediaWiki for stuff like purging, transcluding, et al.
Note
This extension is currently under development and is not suitable for production use.
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This means that any code you submit will be made available under the Apache-2.0 license, and you grant the project maintainers permission to include, modify, and distribute it in accordance with the license.
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in any part of our code, please do not post it publicly by using our wikis or bug trackers for that.
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task here, or send an email to security[at]telepedia.net.