Phil Chett 05 Jul 2008 16:13
What?!?!
Welcome to the HOT, SEXY, Embed Project.
This can only mean one thing :
- Wikidot is enabling new embeddable services.
If you've wanted to be able to embed something deeply into your wikidot page, now's the time to get it.
- Why?
Er… because you've wanted it and the wiki-king wants all your suggestions RIGHT NOW! The deadline for this project is 07 Jul 2008. Just a few days away. We better be gettin' busy. Uh-huh. Oh yeah. Huh huh. YEAH BABY YEAH!. (ahem)
How to Get Some Embed
There are three steps to this project, and hopefully, getting the embeddable service you've always wanted enabled on Wikidot.
1. Frisk Em
First, we need to frisk the forum and find embeddable services that have been desired by Wikidot members and post them here.
Please include a link to the main page of the embeddable service, some lurid details, and, if possible, a naked photo.1
If it's not on the forum, be daring. Just come out and say which embeddable service you desire the most.
Either way, you can tell the wiki-king what you really want by copying the 'template' below and including it in the 'Give It To Me Baby!' section below. BeLOW. Heh.
++ Embeddable Service Name Here
* [http://oh.yeahbabyyeah.com link to the main page for the service]
+++ Description
Write what you can do with the embeddable service and how you would use it for
your most wicked desires.
+++ Code
Post an example of the code used to embed a the service here. Two or more
examples are great, but one is enough. Please do not use @@[[embed]]@@.
+++ Screenshot
[[image screenshot.jpg]]
If possible, please include a screenshot. If the service has a screenshot on it's
main page, just say so, that's good enough.
If you need a place to host the screenshot for free, you can use your own
personal wiki (create one!) or just use http://www.tinypic.com.2. Flirt, Talk Dirty
Comment on the embeddable services other people have posted (please use reply). This helps the wiki-king know which ones the most people want.
3. Pure Satisfaction
This monday, the project will come to a close and shortly after the best embeddable services will be enabled. Pure satisfaction.
4. Kids
Yeah, sometimes things like this result in children. The price of passion. The child of this project is : Son of the Hot Sexy Embed which will ensure that no good Embeddable service is left behind — ever again. Really.
Give It To Me Baby!
Post your desires HERE!!!!!here.
To be honest, I don't like the user ratings a bit, as an indicator if a service should be embedded or not. Just because someone hasn't heard of or used yet, a given service, doesn't mean it may not be a brilliant service. How many mainstream users have heard of RSS (even though it's been around for a few years)? How many approve of it at first glance? Should RSS be abandoned as a technology because of that?
People are habitually suspicious of everything new and unknown. It takes some time to learn the new thing, time to unlearn old ways of doing things, some courage to let go of the current level of competence and time to get used to the new thing before, finally, being able to appreciate it.
Thus I propose that:
(1) ratings be removed;
(2) presentations of services with all the screenshots, descriptions, demos, etc be put on wiki pages so that more people can contribute with presentation materials.
Also: I propose the opening of another section: "services on the "embeddable" list which need update". Meebome is an embeddable service but since they updated the widget code, it is, actually, no longer embeddable. ;)
http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:382
They are editable by community members currently. Considering that the community has lots of unprocessed applications, joining does not seem to be a good options, so the permissions should be changed. I will make some small changes. I will leave the large adjustments up to the people running the project.
Ok, you should be able to contribute now.
I think they show which services would get used most and are worth the embedding effort. There are a huge number of services. Anything rater over one should be considered. The ratings are not too great, but they show demand.
agreed
i would not wish the developers to go to all the trouble of enabling an embed just to satisfy 1 person they have better things to do :-)
meebo-embed-doesnt-work-it-did
I agree with Craig. The ratings should stay. They don't always work out in favor of exactly what I want, but looking over at the Wish List, they help make abundantly clear that the registration process needs streamlining. That's an item that benefits everyone, wiki makers and wannabe wiki members too.
I doubt that it's the only thing they look at when they consider new functionality, nor should it be, but it can be helpful.
If I were a prospective Wikidot user looking for my favourite widget in the documentation, the moment I learn that I would have to wait for an unspecified period of time until enough votes appear for that particular widget, if at all… well, then I am just going to give Wikidot up.
Come on people, see it's not about the widgets, it's about a way of thinking which might become disastrous for Wikidot. Just think, what if that used-only-by-me-at-the-beginning widget is going to make a terrific web site, one which would be drawing the attention of a huge and varied audience of users, with a potential to become a top publicity venue for Wikidot? What about that the essence of my current web sites on Wikidot is not the wiki functionality but the possibility to integrate the Google CSE widget on a flexible platform with an easy to learn syntax?
It's better to charge for the development of embeddable widgets or whatever, but let each user know s/he can have the needed feature, one way or another. Please, do say "there is a way you can get what you need" rather than "you cannot have and wow, it's not us to blame, it's the lack of popular demand!"
http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:382
I want to Embed the Google Voice "Call Me" widget.
I really want to use this widget, and I'm guessing it's not supported (it's not working). Since Google now owns wikidot, I think anything Google related should be supported… no votes required. Haha, seriously, this would improve several of my pages.
You do realise that Google Acquisition post was an April Fool's joke, right? ;-)
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Use http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:use-any-html-code-on-a-page as long as the embedding does "not yet" work for such gadgets..
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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Iframing works well. I added the Google Voice button to one of my pages this way. Here is the code of the widget provided by Google Voice (just replace "BUNCH-OF-LETTER-AND-NUMBERS" with those provided by Google Voice, of course):
And here is the iframe code:
Eduardo R. Ribeiro
http://www.etnolinguistica.org