I will google this too but the experts are here, no doubt !

I collected several ripe/overripe figs from 2 different varieties that were growing at different locations in Los Angeles with a thought to germinate the seeds. People say the wasp lives here so why not to try.

I washed the seeds, got the heaviest ones that sink and placed on top of the seed germination mix covered by some saran wrap in 2 containers.
2 weeks later I got 3 seedlings in each container, and that is out of many, maybe 50-60 or more seeds that I placed in the mix. 

So, my question is the following.
In order to increase the fig germination rate, do the seeds have to go through some preprocessing in a special environment? This could be a bird/animal stomach, for example. Meaning that the seeds from the bird's poop would germinate with a much higher success rate.

This is fairly known stage in germination for some fruit. The persimmons come to mind. The seeds are often treated in a lemon juice or scraped before planting. The fruit that was eaten by a coyote and went through its stomach would have the best chance to keep going. This is mainly to start dissolving the hard seed skin.

Any fig ideas?

From the breeders I have written to and spoke with the media the seeds are in need to reach at least 85 F.

 

The containers are inside the house, the thermostat is set to 75F. To get the 85 or more I need to do this in the garage. If that's the only condition, it is easy to try again. Hmm... the soil where the seeds are dropped by the birds is almost never reaches the 85F mark, that might explain why the figs grow in only some places.
It also might mean that with the global warming we will have more figs!

They need a cold period stick them in your fridge for 3 weeks. You will get a lot better yeald

Thanks, guys!
So, here I have a somewhat conflicting information. Which procedure below is used for figs?..

Assumption: the germination is in a bright light location, no direct sunlight.
Or the seeds must be in the dark (I think not though).

1) fruit -> 3 weeks in a fridge -> regular room temp for germination (75F)
2) fruit -> 3 weeks in a fridge -> higher temp for germination (85F)
3) fruit -> no fridge -> higher temp for germination (85F)

In the past, I 'played' with fig seeds harvested from bought dried figs.

Cleaning them was the most pain.
Let them soak (pulp and all) in water for 1-3 days.
The gooey stuff will then ferment and is easily washed away.
Good seeds with sink to the bottom, making it easier to clean (debris tends to float).
Air dry the clean seeds.

For germination, all is required is that seeds are viable.
If so, they will then grow like real weeds....

George,

Thanks for your input! That is what I've done almost exactly, I didn't air dry the seeds. 
And my outcome is quite dismal :(  
I want to find out the way to improve the success, it is clearly  that I am missing a crucial point in the process since the seeds look viable, we have the wasp over here.

Seeds I played with were:
Calimyrna from CA; grew like weeds.
Black Mission from CA; zippo/nada germination.
     (I recently read that current CA Black Mission fig (seeds) from Trader Joe are viable.) 
Smyrna from Turkey; grew like weeds.
Shirazi from Iran; grew like weeds.

Gorgi, So how did the seedlings turn out? I have started a few different fruits from seed this past winner not much success but I do have a few things that survived.

Figgygoodness,
Here are my seedlings that germinated in February, they are 6.5 months old now:
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Black-Mission-TJ-6365753

The tallest one is about 6 ft as of today.

Your BM TJ plants looked extremely well in your other postings. 

If worst comes out of your project, you have some good growing trees to use as root stock to graft with.