On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Michael Dalemdale@wikimedia.org wrote:
Once you factor in the ratio of video to non-video content for the for-seeable future this comes off looking like a time wasting boondoggle.
I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be uploaded. Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles are not *that* cheap. There is a lot of free video out there and as soon as we have a stable system in place wikimedians are going to have a heyday uploading it to Commons.