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VIDEO NAMESPACE FOR MEDIAWIKI

1. Overview
2. Requirements
3. Installing Video Extension
4. New Special Pages
5. New User Rights
6. Bug Reports and More
7. Credits

==1. Overview==
The video namespace facilitates creation and displaying of new video
description pages that contain embeddable flash videos.

It introduces the [[Video:Name]] MediaWiki markup (and <video name="Name"/>)

Also allows functionality for Video Galleries (similar to <gallery>) and
showing Videos in category pages.

==2. Requirements==
The '''Video Namespace''' extension requires MediaWiki 1.39.0 or greater.

==3. Installing Video Extension==
Installing the Video extension is very easy if you have shell (SSH) access to
your server.

You should add the line below into the wiki's LocalSettings.php and then re-run
maintenance/update.php to create the two necessary database tables.

If you don't have shell access, you should copy the contents of video.sql and
paste them into phpMyAdmin's SQL prompt to create the tables.

Then add the following into your wiki's LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'Video' );

==4. New Special Pages==
Video extension introduces two new special pages, Special:AddVideo and Special:NewVideos.

Special:AddVideo is used to add a video and Special:NewVideos displays a list
of newly added videos à la Special:NewFiles.

==5. New User Rights==
Video extension introduces one new user right, 'addvideo'.
Users with the addvideo right can upload videos through Special:AddVideo.
By default, all registered users are given this right.

The 'reupload' user right is required to upload new videos of pre-existing
videos.

In addition, everyone is able to view Special:NewVideos special page.

==6. Bug Reports and More==
Bugs, issues and feature requests should be reported on the MediaWiki Phabricator:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki-extensions-Video

The most up-to-date Video extension documentation can always be found at MediaWiki.org:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Video

==7. Credits==
The initial idea and coding was done by David Pean <david.pean@gmail.com>.

Łukasz 'TOR' Garczewski <tor@wikia-inc.com> rewrote Special:AddVideo.

Bartek Łapiński <bartek@wikia-inc.com> made a couple small bugfixes and
participated in the development of WikiaVideo extension, which was forked from
this extension.

Przemek Piotrowski <ppiotr@wikia-inc.com> wrote the YouTube extension, from
which a lot of code for various different video providers was extracted.

Jack Phoenix performed code cleanup and wrote the code for deleting videos and
improved the undeletion code, ported a bunch of providers from the YouTube
extension and tweaked internationalization messages.

William Lee <wlee@wikia-inc.com> wrote some code for the WikiaVideo extension,
which was used to build providers/HuluVideo.php.