Hello Wikimedia community,

I just wanted to send an announcement to this list regarding a GSoC project proposal I am planning to submit with the Wikimedia foundation as the mentoring organization. I've been discussing the project with the MetaVidWiki community, but in case there is some broader interest I wanted to run it by here as well.

Excerpt from the proposal:

I propose to do a number of modifications to MetaVidWiki [1] (an existing MediaWiki extension for the annotation of video content), with the common goal of improving the ease in which users can add their own video content to the Wiki.

The specific tasks are: * making the process of video uploading to a MetaVidWiki system an easy one-step process (currently, uploading a video file to the system requires several non-trivial steps) * adding the ability to use / annotate externally hosted video (from sites such as archive.org and YouTube)

The full project proposal is at: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/proposal.html

And the beginnings of some supplemental material here: http://urbanstew.org/metavidwiki/

Please let me know if you have any feedback regarding the project / proposal.

Kind regards,

Stjepan

[1] http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/