Hey Itzik,
very nice, thanks for sharing!
Can you confirm that the music used is also free? It is so generally
appliccable, that the raw music files might also be useful to upload as
such.
Best,
Lodewijk
2016-07-07 9:53 GMT+02:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il>il>:
Hi,
We happy announce a new partnership with the Israeli News Company, which
produces the primetime news program on Israel’s Channel 2. For the past 23
years, Channel 2 News has covered the history of Israel and the Middle
East, as well as events around the world.
The partnership is aiming to introduce a hundred new video files
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Israel_-_Channel_2_vi…
on current affairs to be added, remixed,
and shared on the Wikimedia
projects. Videos cover footage from important historical events like the
Oslo
Accords
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Oslo_Accords.webm>,
the Israel–Jordan
peace treaty
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_p…
,Jerusalem and the Western Wall
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Jerusalem.webm>, the
Dead
Sea <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Dead_Sea.webm> and
even videos of Japan
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Japan.webm>and India
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_India.webm>, footage
of Israeli leaders such as Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Benjamin_Netanyahu.webm
, President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_2_-_Reuven_(Ruvi)_Rivlin.we…
,
former *President *Shimon Peres
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel2_-_Shimon_Peres.webm> and
more
You can read more about it on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/06/israel-video-wikimedia/
Our volunteers already started to embed this video on Wikipedia articles in
many languages. You are welcome to help in your language!. See project page
on HEWP for more information:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7…
You are welcome to visit the project page on Commons to see what video
files are available and request other videos!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Channel_2_(Israel)_project
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 |
http://www.wikimedia.org.il
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