On 9/18/06, Forbidden Places postmaster@forbidden-places.be wrote:
Hi Jason, No problem, as long as the videos are not edited.
We will not edit the video. Other people will be able to edit the video in the future once it is posted on Wikipedia, but we at Wikipedia have no plans to. It would be nice if you remove the ad for your website in the corner of your video though... :-)
What do I have to do?
1. We need to know who made the video and the music.
(We need to know who owns the copyright on the video and the music to ensure there will be no issues. We would ask for the full names (or Internet nicknames) and email addresses of these people.)
2. You would need to agree to license the videos under an open-content license. My recommended way to do this is to state in an email that you "dual-license the videos under the current GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 2.5 and any later version". All copyright holders, including for the video and the music, would need to agree to this. This basically means that anyone will be able to copy the video from Wikipedia, remix it or do other things with it, and post it on other sites, as long as they mention who created the video. Licensing is a necessary step for Wikipedia. If you don't understand these terms, or want different terms, please do "Reply to All" again and tell us. The people on the wikien-l@wikipedia.org mailing list can then help you with licensing.
3. Ogg Theora re-encoding.
We would need to encode your video in Ogg Theora format, the video codec we use at Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media#Video ). We may be able to re-encode the high-resolution video you have at http://www.forbidden-places.be/videos.php for you, but to get the best quality, you would want to do the Ogg encoding yourself from the original film in your video-editing program. Our maximum video file size is 20 MB.
I'd love to get a link from wiki (en) from the urban exploration page, would that be possible?
Sorry, Wikipedia is not a web directory. :-( We link to infiltration.org but we are unable to link to all the smaller urbex sites.
What do you think of the above 3 steps?
Cheers, Jason