Sorry for my English. To prevent loss of data, is possible to upload all video and audio files from Wikimania 2006 in Wikimedia servers? Keeping this only in freehosting services isn't a good idea.
Luiz Augusto schreef:
Sorry for my English. To prevent loss of data, is possible to upload all video and audio files from Wikimania 2006 in Wikimedia servers? Keeping this only in freehosting services isn't a good idea.
I have recently posted the message below to an other list. Can not hurd to post it here also. Waiting for feedback ...
Walter
preservation of available media ; is there "official" video/audio coming?
As internal subcom-member I am trying to get as many recordings of Wikimania events collected.
On this page is listed what is available; http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives
That are all media from non-official WMF sources.
I have seen 2 realmedia video live-stream feeds. The announced audio stream I have not found.
Are those recordings kept? Will the be put online soon?
If so; is that only from the events where a live stream was available or are there also offline audio/video recordings been made of the other presentations? If so, will the be put online?
If not I will re-encode all mp3-audio recordings listed on the archive page to Ogg Vorbis and upload them to commons. Contact the users who provided the video listed there to ask to provide the source recordings, make Ogg Theora files from those and also put those in commons (if I can get them down to 20mb, very annoying that limited)
And I am also planning to try to contact all the people who have give a presentation where there is not yet any recording from of the have made their self a recording. Or of the are willing to make a new recording by giving there presentation again and record it there self this time.
But that I a lot of work for me and all the people involved. That is why I need to know what , if anything, of official recordings is coming.
Greetings, Walter
On 8/7/06, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
On this page is listed what is available; http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives
That are all media from non-official WMF sources.
The MP3s posted there are the official recordings, made using Harvard Law School equipment and processed by Colin Rhinesmith at the Berkman Center. Colin also has the full set in ogg vorbis format, but uploading the original mp3s to archive.org was the fastest way to make them available.
Video for the sessions will be available as soon as the DV tapes storing it are processed. I expect this will happen by the end of the week, but I'll have to confirm that with Colin.
Colin deserves special thanks for handling this; he took care of everything without any involvement needed from me. Kudos to him and everyone else at the Berkman Center.
Austin
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