On Dec 5, 2014 12:09 PM, "Jan Ainali" <jan.ainali@wikimedia.se> wrote:
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> When structured data on Commons is live, this will be quite easy (allowing time for media to be tagged also). 
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> If you are looking for a solution that works now I do not have any better ideas.
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> 2014-12-05 16:24 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lih <andrew@andrewlih.com>:
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>> I'm wondering what people have found to be the best practices for identifying video in Wikipedia articles.
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>> A number of issues:
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>> - One of the problems is the OGG is a container, so simply parsing article Wikimarkup may not be sufficient to identify video content.
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>> - You can go by category, but this is not always fully accurate
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>> - Are GIFs that are animated considered video? Some are, and some aren't.
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>> Interested in hearing what people think, or whether we have a taxonomy of video types that are well defined.
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>> -Andrew
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Are you looking for a list of articles with videos? We can probably do that now with a db query (there may be a small number of false negatives on the ogg front, but probably 98% of them can be identified from db. Gifs present a complicating factor but probably still do-able.).

--bawolff