I don't know that I add that category when I do add videos to articles myself.  One solution would be to narrow a scope to a select list of articles around a topic/wikiproject like Roads, Sports, medicine, and then conduct a search for .ogv, .ogg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball , http://topsy.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_derby , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Jackson , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_O%27Hea , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Capitals , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Graf , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianna_Tolo all have video in there.

I think there are some limitations with video that are also worth discussing: Is it better to have a quality picture of Marianna Tolo in the article?  Or is it better to have lesser quality video in the article?  I believe the maximum upload size on Commons is 100mb.  There is no streaming.  This creates a major wall to sharing this type of content in an article and making a video illustrative of a point.  (The video in the roller derby article for example illustrates safety in roller derby.  Tolo video illustrates her playing in a game.  If you're a French fan of her, you might want to see what she played like in Australia, especially since Australian games were not televised in France.)

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Ward Cunningham <ward@c2.com> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:

Thanks Ward -- very useful! It would be interesting to run it again on a recent dump and to find whether certain categories are getting better video treatment, though the set 

Will do.

I wonder if we could get some students to check my results and add the "containing video clips" category to pages that deserve it. 

Best regards. -- Ward

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