Maybe people don't know but video donation happens in Wikimedia already and it doesn't need to be from Youtubers.
Here is my favorite example: German public broadcaster (ARD) donates short informational videos to Wikipedia and they are used in articles in German Wikipedia. They get a lot of views. Here is a list of videos from one of their programs named Tagesschau: https://mvc.toolforge.org/index.php?category=Videos+by+Tagesschau+(ARD)%C3%9...
For example, this video about Golf Stream and impact of climate change on it which is used in the article of Golf Stream in German Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurzerkl%C3%A4rt,_Golfstrom_-_Tagess... Or when cold or hot temperatures can be dangerous to humans: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gut_zu_wissen,_Wann_wird_K%C3%A4lte_... Or an explanation on Carthage, even with English subtitles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karthago,_Ph%C3%B6nizische_Gro%C3%9F...
It'd really be nice to see more partnerships like this. Whether with youtubers, public broadcasters, museums, universities, or anything like that!
Am Fr., 26. Jan. 2024 um 19:29 Uhr schrieb Andrew Bogott < abogott@wikimedia.org>:
On 1/26/24 12:05 PM, geni wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 22:24, Ivan Martínez galaver@gmail.com wrote:
By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure
encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there.
Creating good encyclopaedic videos is from a video production point of view a far harder problem that dealing with the technical hurdles in uploading video to commons. Going to take a lot of effort in scripting, shooting, lighting and editing. And having your editor of choice render the final project in a wikipedia friendly format should not present a problem (and if it does handbrake exists).
I really doubt we will ever get much in the way of encyclopaedic videos on our platforms since they take so much time and cost so much to make that they are only viable at scale from people who can do it at as a full time job. Youtubers find ways to do that through adsense, sponsor spots and Patreon. Not really something you can do on wikipedia.
I don't know much of anything about youtube licensing... is it possible for youtubers to dual or re-license their content? Could we invite creators to donate their content to the commons after a year or two when their revenue stream has trailed off? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/... To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org