On 7/19/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.vidipedia.org/Vidipedia_FAQ
Lots of stuff comes directly from Wikipedia, and quite a lot of the pages were just cut'n'pasted over and are in need of fixing ... but hmm, interesting.
I wonder if they'll do much toward making video editable. Imagine how far Wikipedia wouldn't have gotten if every edit was a PDF of a scan
Well .. images are about as editable as video could ever hope to be.. and we seldom see cooperative editing for raster images.
SVGs are much much better in this regard that we could expect video to become we only see a fairly limited amount of cooperative editing compared to text.
Interested people can see most of our own videos here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
Right now our upload size limits are a major limitation for us. As well as the lack of good user education... and the pure difficulty in producing professional quality videos which remains even when you have the right equipment. etc..
It seems like the site is focusing on cooperative submission and cooperative classification rather than cooperative editing... which is probably the right approach for video for the foreseeable future.
I expect to see an upswing in videos submitted as more people realize that there is a lot of opportunity to submit videos of simple things that have no video at all. Today still photography on Wikipedia can be a challenge because most of the easy and obviously things are already done well. Thats not yet true of video.