Wikipedia set for video explosion?
Wikipedia's decision to increase its server capacity will herald a new era for the online encyclopaedia.
According to Sun Microsystems, Wikimedia – the company behind the likes of Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks – has bought in a lot of new servers.
This will bring about the end of a 100 MB upload cap for Wikipedia, enabling video hosting and better picture support.
According to CNethttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10103177-2.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0, this could include picture editing software and allow users to modify images and see past revisions in the same way as they can the text.
Wikipedia is one of the most visited internet sites on the globe, boasting 2.6 million entries in English alone.
Currently the vast majority of WIkipedia is text based, and thus takes up very little room in terms of server space - despite its breadth of material.
However, as media like video becomes more prevalent, the need for storage capacity rises. But that's progress for you.
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/20/wikipedia-set-for-video-explosion/
This sounds really interesting to see in the future. Encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Educational images and video that anyone can edit? Awesome
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:49 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Wikipedia set for video explosion?
Wikipedia's decision to increase its server capacity will herald a new
era
for the online encyclopaedia.
According to Sun Microsystems, Wikimedia – the company behind the likes
of
Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks – has bought in a lot of new servers.
This will bring about the end of a 100 MB upload cap for Wikipedia, enabling video hosting and better picture support.
According to CNet<
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10103177-2.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesA...
, this could include picture editing software and allow users to modify
images
and see past revisions in the same way as they can the text.
Wikipedia is one of the most visited internet sites on the globe,
boasting
2.6 million entries in English alone.
Currently the vast majority of WIkipedia is text based, and thus takes up very little room in terms of server space - despite its breadth of
material.
However, as media like video becomes more prevalent, the need for storage capacity rises. But that's progress for you.
Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/11/20/wikipedia-set-for-video-explosion/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 11/20/08, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Wikipedia set for video explosion?
As long as it's not a "fair use" explosion the glass windows won't break.
According to CNet http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10103177-2.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea, this could include picture editing software and allow users to modify images and see past revisions in the same way as they can the text.
There is a proposal to add an edit box and a diff view for .svg files (which are stored in plain text) but it's been on the back burner for 2+1/2 years.
Obviously making bitmap/raster images editable and diffable in situ would be significantly harder (and less likely to have a constructive purpose) than doing so for svgs, so I'll believe it after I see it.
—C.W.
Well, I still hope the software behind wikipedia will remain free.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.comwrote:
On 11/20/08, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Wikipedia set for video explosion?
As long as it's not a "fair use" explosion the glass windows won't break.
According to CNet <
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10103177-2.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesA...
, this could include picture editing software and allow users to modify
images
and see past revisions in the same way as they can the text.
There is a proposal to add an edit box and a diff view for .svg files (which are stored in plain text) but it's been on the back burner for 2+1/2 years.
Obviously making bitmap/raster images editable and diffable in situ would be significantly harder (and less likely to have a constructive purpose) than doing so for svgs, so I'll believe it after I see it.
—C.W.
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Amen. It'd be nice to see what we could do with built-in image editing software. Also, if this goes through, prepare for images of unrelated things popping up in random places (vandals; -shakes head-)
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Kevin Wong wikipedianmarlith@gmail.comwrote:
Well, I still hope the software behind wikipedia will remain free.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.comwrote:
On 11/20/08, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Wikipedia set for video explosion?
As long as it's not a "fair use" explosion the glass windows won't break.
According to CNet <
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10103177-2.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesA...
, this could include picture editing software and allow users to modify
images
and see past revisions in the same way as they can the text.
There is a proposal to add an edit box and a diff view for .svg files (which are stored in plain text) but it's been on the back burner for 2+1/2 years.
Obviously making bitmap/raster images editable and diffable in situ would be significantly harder (and less likely to have a constructive purpose) than doing so for svgs, so I'll believe it after I see it.
—C.W.
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