Interesting to see an Italian video is the #1 video used across the projects, as it's included in the welcome template to new/anonymous editors on Italian Wikipedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_ridotto.ogv

Similarly, #2 is an Arabic introduction video used in an ar.wp welcome message:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arabic_Wikipedia_Introduction.ogg

And... the introduction to Tamil Wikipedia is #3:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bala_talks_about_Tamil_Wikipedia.ogv

However, I do wonder how often these videos are actually played, given how OGV and WebM are not widely supported by default.

Full list:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/usedVideosCommons.htm

-Andrew


-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American University
Email: andrew@andrewlih.com
WEB: http://www.andrewlih.com
BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution: http://www.wikipediarevolution.com
PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/22/15, Jesse de Vos <jdvos@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Interesting statistics, would it be possible to generate these for other
> language versions as well?

Which language are you interested in? Here it is for nl:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/usedVideosNl.htm

> Wikimedia Netherlands held its new years gathering at the Netherlands
> Institute for Sound and Vision, a great opportunity to generate buzz around
> video on Wikipedia. Some Wikipedians indicated that they would be
> interested in picking up the challenge of adding more video on Wikipedia.
> So I am setting up a projectpage (much like the English WP:video
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Videos> and WP:Wiki makes video
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video> on
> which we can share knowledge about the production, transcoding and use of
> video.
> I would like to generate a list of Commons categories containing video, but
> the search function doesn't allow me to make such a list. Does anyone have
> a suggestion how to proceed?


This is actually a surprisingly fast sql query (under 1 minute):
https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/categoryVid.htm

Let me know if those are what you need.

Cheers,
Bawolff

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