[New thread for the discussions started by brion, Ivan, James and others on
becoming video-friendly and building a community of video editors and
curators. Was "*Re: We need more interactive content.*"]
James Heilman wrote:
With VideoWiki we have been able to create some higher
quality content
with a partner at MyUpchar. The text was written by us, the individual
short animations were done by them, and then the tool combines it all
together with text to speech. Hope to get the tool working again soon:
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Video:Tuberculosis
A nice example of a) creating a space explicitly to develop new tools and
encourage one another in using them; b) trialing a workflow that can be
automated at need.
Text-to-speech and animation tools have also advanced tremendously since
that was produced; this is also becoming an important channel for more
mainstream media (I see the spammers taking over mainstream social media
with it as well, in how-tos, education, news, sports, and leisure).
SJ
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM Ivan Martínez <galaver(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It is not difficult to do something that is already
happening. By
referring to encyclopedic videos I am talking about multimedia that can
enrich existing content. I understand your point, it's a bit like what
happened with the project of reading recorded Wikipedia articles that after
years seem obsolete.
What I am referring to is all that multimedia material that is visual,
that can be made into video to complement articles. The process you mention
is complicated, but not impossible, in fact, there are many of us editors
who have all those skills already implemented in the projects.
By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a
Wikipedia 2.0 with pure
encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there.
brion wrote:
My recommendations for Wikimedia Foundation on this
subject:
1) Overturn the requirement to avoid handling h.264 files on Wikimedia
servers or accept them from users or serve them to users. Allow importing
h.264 uploads and creating h.264 transcodes for playback compatibility.
2) Create an interactive media team with at least two engineers, a
designer, and a project manager
3) Give this team a remit to rebuild *and maintain in an ongoing fashion*
the existing TimedMediaHandler, Graphs, Score, 3D, etc extensions
4) Integrate those tools cleanly with mobile apps and social media
embedding tools managed by other teams