2012/4/24 Andrew Cates andrew.cates@soschildren.org

Um. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video appear to all be images relevant to the topic of videos. Not themselves videos.

Sorry, a missing S, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos

Owner? Not personally but I am the CEO of the charity which owns them and I can release them.

Is there any actual video anywhere on WP and in what format?

Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_video_clips

The prefered format is Theora https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video

Andrew

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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:

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2012/4/24 Andrew Cates andrew.cates@soschildren.org

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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

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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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