It also allows for videos to be made immediately. YouTube's upload interface is flawless. Wikimedia Commons is problematic for bulk upload. Thankfully, we are an hour away from the Ashburn, Virginia data center, but we are waiting until we have all the videos before handing the hard drives off to the Wikimedia Foundation.
On Aug 21, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 August 2012 22:10, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It says a lot about the state of the Wikimedia Commons upload system that even the WMF ends up uploading videos to Youtube in advance of posting them on a website that it operates. :-(
Youtube is specifically designed for sharing videos. Commons isn't.
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