On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 05:07, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
? Many creators say they are glad to relicense their existing fantastic work, but don't have time/will to overcome the current obstacles to such reuse that they have to [personally] overcome for each video. So we only get bulk contributions, through a third-party who is familiar with the wikis, once in a while... a modest homegrown example: depthsofwiki has a range of great short videos that are partly educational and mainly inspiring to delve into the wikis and learn things. I suspect none of them are on Commons despite obvious relevance to the movement for outreach, illustration, and the like.
I suspect we are dealing with Stated vs. Revealed Preferences. Saying no to wikipedia has more of a social cost than talking about technical issues. Converting to something wikipedia will accept is fairly straightforward. Handbrake has a GUI and pops up in creator workflows as a convient way to compress B-roll. Uploading presents more of a challange than most areas but that would be because we care more about copyright than most so probably unavoidable,