The web is getting ready for Google Wave. There are more and more wave plugins and extensions coming out almost every day for this. Latest one here is Google Wave Embed extension for Mediawiki. This is a simple article that lets you learn the basics of using Google Wave on Wikipedia or Mediawiki.
What is MediaWiki ?
this is what their website says .. simple and easy to understand.
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and bymany other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
What Does this Extension DO ?
The GoogleWave extension makes it possible to embed Google Waves in your installation of MediaWiki using the The Google Wave Embed API. So, in future we may see Google Wave in a Wikimedia entry, letting you do more on that Wiki Article. If you have your own MediaWiki installation, this is great news for you also.
How to Embed a Wave in a Wiki Article
Now, here is the howto part, or the technical knowhow on adding Google Wave in to a Wiki entry. This can be achieved with the wave-tag and id attribute like this:
<wave id=”wavesandbox.com!w+TwgH-jM-%B” />
Place the tag in your regular WikiML code in any page and you should be good to go (you must of course change the id to the actual id of the wave that you want to embed).
The MediaWiki wave tag now supports all the attributes that a wave can handle. That means, you can change following things on the wave, ( mainly how it looks, and its size )
- id (required)
- height
- width
- color
- bgcolor
- font
- fontsize
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