2012/4/24 Andrew Cates andrew.cates@soschildren.org
I am wondering about releasing many hundreds of Africa educational videos under creative commons.
They are the videos currently at www.our-africa.org which is a child generated reference site about Africa.
There is a lot of material in the videos which could be edited and used to improve Wikipedia article (a solar kettle in operation, a maize plant grinding maize, a variety of musical instruments in use, different religious festivals, cocoa plantations etc etc)
However at present Wikipedia does not seem to support or want video material.
Wikipedia supports video with [[Media:]] tag. Also, Wikimedia Commons has a little collection of them https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
Does anyone have a feel whether this is likely to change?
http://www.videoonwikipedia.com
Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, some people can help you in the process.
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On 24 April 2012 13:26, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, some people can help you in the process.
Well, not really - uploading video is still laborious because we've been waiting literally years for the Timed Media Handler, which is a wikitech issue. Andrew could probably deal with the ffmpeg2theora bit, but it's still faffy and troublesome.
- d.
Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress?
I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome.
SJ
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 April 2012 13:26, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, some people can help you in the process.
Well, not really - uploading video is still laborious because we've been waiting literally years for the Timed Media Handler, which is a wikitech issue. Andrew could probably deal with the ffmpeg2theora bit, but it's still faffy and troublesome.
- d.
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap indicates that we aim to have TimedMediaHandler deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation sites by the end of May 2012.
TimedMediaHandler has been reviewed by Ian Baker and Kandalgaonkar extensively, with lots of changes made in response by Michael Dale. Review notes and Michael's follow-up are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TimedMediaHandler/ReviewNotes . It is currently being tested, including transcoding support, at http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Electric_sheep.webm . (Copied this from the extensions review queue status at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue .)
Thanks Sumana! :)
--michael
On 04/24/2012 09:10 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap indicates that we aim to have TimedMediaHandler deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation sites by the end of May 2012.
TimedMediaHandler has been reviewed by Ian Baker and Kandalgaonkar extensively, with lots of changes made in response by Michael Dale. Review notes and Michael's follow-up are at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/TimedMediaHandler/ReviewNotes . It is currently being tested, including transcoding support, at http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/File:Electric_sheep.webm . (Copied this from the extensions review queue status at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue .)
2012/4/24 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress?
I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome.
SJ
You can upload them to Internet Archive, if Wikipedia has temporal issues with videos. When the problems are fixed, we can move them from Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons.
Another example of a recent video donation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadc...
2012/4/25 emijrp emijrp@gmail.com
2012/4/24 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com
Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress?
I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome.
SJ
You can upload them to Internet Archive, if Wikipedia has temporal issues with videos. When the problems are fixed, we can move them from Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons.
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