I still protest the policies on this point. In the name of freedom, we
are enforcing a non-standard format, giving people extra problems to
just hear and see the sound files and videos on Wikipedia. Wikipedia
should be there for the normal internet user, not just for tech-savy
open-source-loving nerds.
My computer when seeing a .ogg-file, automatically assumes it's a
sound file, and thus I cannot see this movie. I know there are others
who don't even have software for .ogg-soundfiles. We are much too
strict on this point. What should bother us is not whether there are
any patents on a certain format, but whether free software exists to
play it. Where that is the case (for the most common platforms, or at
the very least for Windows and Unix), rejecting files because their
format is supposedly non-free is doing a disservice to our readers and
writers with no actual advantage to compensate for it.
Andre Engels
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:04:44 +1100, Robert Graham Merkel
<robert.merkel(a)benambra.org> wrote:
In the grand tradition of actually getting things done
on Wikipedia,
Wikipedian KSheka, with some assistance from myself to convert the video
to Theora, has gone ahead and uploaded a video of an "echocardiograph
demonstrating systolic anterior motion of the anterior leaflet of the
mitral value", which, translated, I think means "a video of a beating
heart with a valve that's moving wrongly"
You can see the article with the uploaded video at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
Now we actually *have* a video in a patent-unencumbered codec uploaded
to Wikipedia, and the ability to make more of them (transcoding to Theora
is pretty straightforward once you've got ffmpeg2theora installed), the
discussion about video I posted at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/Video_policy
becomes a little more directly relevant...
From my point of view, I'd be very interested
in people's thoughts on
what we should do to make best use of video (one thing
that comes to
mind is that we should always take a still from the video as
illustration, but more thoughts are good)...
Oh, and has there been any progress on implementing code for an approval
process?
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robert.merkel(a)benambra.org
http://benambra.org
"And James Hird has just gone after Robert Harvey...that's like Bambi
attacking Bambi"
-- Gerard Whately, Essendon vs. St Kilda, 3/4/2004
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