Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:01 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Figuring out what to do with videos encyclopedia wise is going to be another potential interest
Yea.. Well there are lots of cases for use of video in a 'source' material capacity. We're already doing a lot of that. But certainly we write about TONS of things that move where a short video could improve understanding.
I think the bigger challenge is that the text and imagery created by Wikimedians is already at such high standards that making videos that don't look out of place will be hard. Wikimedians routinely produce still photography and diagrams which could hold their own in any professional publication. Creating a video which is both informative and polished looking is simply a lot harder than creating a good still photograph.
Don't let's think about this purely in terms of using video for wikipedia. Think about wikiversity lectures. Lectures and instructional videos (wikibooks) generally aren't polished and choreographed to the hilt.
But somehow I wouldn't be too pessimistic about the quality anyhow, since the track-record overwhelmingly has been that wikimedians have delivered, when given the opportunity.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen