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

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

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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