On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/1 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
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.
Oh hell yes. If I could just upload any AVI or MPEG4 straight off a camera, you bet I would. Just imagine what people who've never heard the word "Theora" will do.
Even if so, I don't think assuming that every single commons upload at the current rate will instead be a 15-minute video is much of an underestimate...
-Kat
A reasonable estimate would require knowledge of how much free video can be automatically acquired, it's metadata automatically parsed and then automatically uploaded to commons. I am aware of some massive archives of free content video. Current estimates based on images do not necessarily apply to video, especially as we are just entering a video-aware era of the internet. At any rate, while Gerard's estimate is a bit optimistic in my view, it seems realistic for the near term.