-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Klein [mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 08:24 PM
To: 'Opportunities for video in the Wikimedia universe, tech help'
Cc: 'Wikimedia Commons'
Subject: Re: [Wikivideo-l] OpenCourseware videos, video players, and more

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2011/2/10 Samuel Klein : >> 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. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l