On Jul 13, 2012 9:32 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Videos on YouTube have been uploaded soon, but the
full coverage only two
months ago, not before making a WMF server crash to convert
them.
That's right, I started the conversion job on Friday, and when I came back
on Monday the server had died and had to be powercycled.
A large part of the delay was in getting the videos to us: IIRC, we
received the Big External HD With Videos in January or February, on the
wrong side of the country (SF instead of Virginia). The rest of the delay
was in setting up a conversion server, a few technical issues with it, and
people (mostly me) doing this work on the side and getting bogged down with
their "actual" work. Me moving halfway across the world didn't help either.
So all in all there were long delays on the organization side and on the
Foundation side. I apologize for the delays caused on the WMF side, and I
want to give a shout-out to Tomasz Kozłowski (User:Odder), the awesome
volunteer who helped me transcode the videos, checked my work, and provided
file descriptions and better file names for the videos. Thanks Tomasz!
As for 2012 and beyond, I'll send an e-mail to the organizers soon with
guidelines for getting the videos to us in a way that's useful to us; a lot
of the WMF-side delay was because the data we got wasn't as useful as it
should have been, so we probably didn't xommunicate what we needed well
enough. I'll try to publish that information on meta as well where possible
(I may not be allowed to publish things like addresses).
Roan