On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
Laura, thanks for your insight into this. I also worried about the generic "ogg" container and not knowing exactly whether it was audio or video, without digging deeper into the metadata.

Since there seems to be interest, here's a pointer to the video project planning page and please do feel to add/markup/edit. The plan is to execute a video gathering/production project in March/April.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado/Video_project


It would be awesome to see more video, but the technical end really needs to improve on some level.  Ditto with the audio.  There was a discussion at one point about putting a video on the front page of English Wikipedia as a DYK picture.  (HJ Mitchell nominated it I think.  The video was from a cartoon and was public domain.)  It ran because the image was in public domain. It had an outstanding number of views.  The problem is yeah... local download required.  I believe even if you resize the file like "200px", the video itself isn't "resized" so taking a 1000px wide video that is 100megs, putting it into an article as 200px still requires a 100megs upload.  Beyond that, no size warnings or warnings anywhere that you're doing essentially a local download, not streaming.

I've talked a number of sport organisations about video, and they can be used to great effect when used properly.  I have a few myself of skiers.  Seeing a picture of a blind skier and their guide kind of looks cool but hearing the guide call out instructions to the blind skier and watching them go down the mountain together could make the point about http://enwp.org/Para-alpine_skiing much more effective in terms of understanding that part of the sport.  They see the value but the push isn't there.  I probably need to get a few really successful examples.  The picture part is easy enough.

The use of video has also been something we've actively discussed on English Wikinews.  As one of the primary users of ogg sound files and people who does on the ground original reporting, it would be fantastic to have an editor that would easily allow us to put together a video more easily.  There are just a lot of technical challenges, including the file format.  (That said, I absolutely love https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fire-2-field-recorder/id436241643?mt=8 this application for the iPhone and iPad. It basically allows for recording in ogg.  We've got it set up on Wikinews when we do mobile reporting that we can then upload these files locally to speed up writing time through the use of Dropbox.  We're working on a tool that will then build in the licenses for uploading to further ease this problem.  It's been incredibly effective for reviewers who sometimes face problems downloading from Commons.)


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