This morning a colleague asked about embedding a meebo me widget into her wiki. The problem is that a default installation of MediaWiki does not allow embedding of Flash. After some searching around the web, I found this extension at Glenn’s Junk Chest. I installed the extension on her wiki (not yet public), and on the Biz Wiki as well. Thus far it seems to work fine, and it was very easy to set up. If you’re interested, here is how I did it:
- Copy this code into a text file and name it
gflash.php. - Put gflash.php into your MediaWiki extensions directory.
- Enable the setting in your
LocalSettings.phpfile by adding the following:include('extensions/gflash.php'); - Add your meebo me widget with the structure as follows:
480 340 http://www.somewhere.com/someflash.swf
In the example, the numbers determine the display size of the widget or flash file. - Have fun with your widget. 😉
Update: Thanks to Paul’s question in the comments, I tested embedding a Captivate tutorial in the Biz Wiki. You can see the results here. I think it looks kind of nice and keeps the user in the wiki. (However, this screencast was originally programmed to go to our library home page on conclusion, so users eventually leave the wiki. This might be something to change in future versions. )
December 15, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Hey Chad, any reason to think this wouldn’t work for flash-based screencasts too? I don’t have personal access to a wiki admin module to try it out, but will try to get someone to plug it in here. Any chance you can try it out there?
April 8, 2007 at 11:33 am
Can meebo be intergrated into a regular web page? Specifically, this one? http://www.northwestms.edu/learning%20resources/library.html I know I’m asking a lot, but I need help sounding techy w/ IT. 😉
April 13, 2007 at 7:06 am
Maggie,
You will want to look into the meebo me widget, which allows you to easily embed the widget into a static html page.