On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
2011/2/10 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
OCW wants a failproof way to instruct people to
set up their browsers
so that our media player works.
Use Flash video. *ducks*
This comment did come up :) The OCW staff were sympathetic and
appreciated the fact that Wikipedia is a visible proponent of the need
for a free toolchain. But they want to convince professors who may be
on the fence about releasing their videos under a free license
comfortable with it. Profs who appreciate these subtletie won't be on
the fence.
The best you can do for now is recommend people
install Firefox (you
may want to use the beta for the best experience).
OK. That addresses the first Q; I will recommend profs be pointed here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
I hope to have more progress/uploads in time for the Free Culture
gathering next weekend.
At some point a table like this one specifically for compatibility
with our player would be useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Table
< Q3: Do we have historical stats on the # of media files in Commons by
filetype or mediatype?
Or current stats? Hans Westerhof at the Dutch Institute for Sound and
Vision joined for the meeting (he is visiting Cambridge for a month)
and said that the 1000 news clips they've uploaded made up 10% of the
video on Commons at the time. I wonder if that's still the case.
< Q5: why is the link to the permissions email still so hard to find?
I am inclined to point people to special:uploadwizard, another fine
beta, even though it elides this part of the permissions process, and
to encourage them to categorize uploads with a simple memorable tag.
It would be useful to be able to generate an upload URL that has a set
of categories already included as an argument, so that everyone using
that URL would have those tags applied to uploaded media.
< Q6: do we still have that 100MB file size limit? can we change this to 500MB?
Should this be asked on wikitech instead?
Sam.
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