> 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.
Yes, this is essential. Can be via a separate videowiki in the short term (or NCcommons) if the WM Commons community is united in opposition.
> 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
Yes. Just to coordinate + streamline all the development, design, and coordination across the movement. It would likely save everyone time and resources in the end, instead of so many half-focused groups and good ideas hitting dead ends.
wʍ, SJ