FYI. cheers, Brianna

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com Date: 22 Jan 2008 07:21 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Format Conversion To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

On Jan 21, 2008 1:48 PM, teun spaans teun.spaans@gmail.com wrote: [snip]

A pragmatic approach, where we convert stuff on upload into a free format is something i asked for in vain at commons. I am very glad to see resurface that idea here.

Uploading to our projects sucks. It's hard all around.

I'm working on an upload tool for video that has an improved ajaxy upload form to better gather data, and can transcode uploads. So far I only support pulling video from things like Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba, Stage6 and Metacafe, but I will eventually support a couple of other upload mechanisms (http upload, etc). It will allow anonymous uploading, with a submission queue so that named users can approve uploads before they hit the site. I think thats better than not allowing anonymous uploading.

Like the WikiMediaPlayer I expect that this will eventually be re-invented as a mediawiki extension once the uses and needs are clear.

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