Ben, great to hear it. I’m happy to help out in
this again.
We had Internet Archive participate at Wikiconference NA in San Diego
this past October, but we focused more on link rot than on video. But I
think we should now turn our attention more to Popcorn/video collaboration.
Victor and I have talked at length on the compelling use case for
collaboration, and nothing is stronger than the “year end video” or
“montage” application.
The “year end” video I made for North America was assembled by making a
wide call for submissions, people leaving links and messages on a long
Google Doc, and then me spending two long days video editing solo. I even
called out the idea of using a potential collaborative system in front of
the conference crowd after showing the video saying, “If only we had a
collaborative way of editing this, right Brion?”
Another use case is “juke boxing” a number of videos together into a
“best of” video reel. Here’s an example of 26 minutes of the best videos
about Wikipedia/Wikimedia I made this year to play at the beginning of
events. We’ve used this at conferences, and edit-a-thons at the UN, BBC and
museums in DC. It’s been very useful to provide a primer to those new to
Wikipedia.
But it’s hard to add more videos or add translations. Rather than
rendering this out into an MP4 and have me, personally, revise it, it would
be great to have this as a collaborative project so people could keep
upgrading it, or translate for other languages. Right now, I’m the
bottleneck.
-Andrew
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Benjamin Moskowitz <benrito(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hey all,
We made some great progress on the Internet Archive deployment, thanks
to the technical leadership of Tracey Jaquith at the Archive (she’s cc’d):
https://archive.org/pop/
The repository is here:
https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor
We’re all really eager to resume conversations about how to leverage
this work for the Wikimedia Commons.
Brion, Tracey, myself and a number of others were part of a meeting at
NYU last year:
http://benrito.github.io/video-commons2016/ One goal of
that meeting was to get a better sense of the ecosystemic opportunities for
open video that we could unlock with the help of public interest media orgs
like WMF and the Archive.
If we can enable Victor’s use case below at some bigger scale, maybe
envision some WikiEdu-style supports to teachers, that would create more
incentives for public media producers, GLAMs, universities, MOOCs and
others to contribute their video to the commons. Peter Kaufman, who I know
is on this list, has done a lot of great analysis for education and public
media donors on this.
We are planning on hosting a follow-up meeting in NYC or SF early this
year; would be great to have Wikimedian representation to help figure out
how we might carry this agenda forward. If anyone is interested in helping
to organize or take part, please let me know.
A group of us used to meet on this semi-regularly in 2015; perhaps we
could resume these meetings too...
Cheers,
Ben
On Jan 3, 2017, at 10:54 PM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Thanks -
I just got this deletion notice a minute ago:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests
/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm
and an online video editor would help enormously when i have a complex
montage and one little part gets flagged. If the sequence was online,
anyone could modify as-needed.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Internet Archive has done some more work on it,
I'll have to catch up
on the current state of things.
-- brion
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 7:30 AM Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi Brion,
>
> Is there any progress on this video editor?
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> One of the really cool ‘web maker’ projects that Mozilla sponsored in
> the last few years was Popcorn Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>,
>
> an in-browser video editor that could take direct video clips or videos
>
> from Youtube etc and let you remix to your heart’s content. (See Ben’s
> blog post from July <http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=1083> and Mike’s
> presentation on Air Mozilla <https://air.mozilla.org/mnolan/>)
>
>
> Obviously this capability is very attractive for the future of video
> on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites!
>
>
> Unfortunately Mozilla has to shuffle priorities, and Popcorn Maker is
> on the outs
> <https://blog.webmaker.org/product-update-for-appmaker-and-popcorn-maker>
> .
>
>
> Fortunately, there’s enough interest in the Wikimedia video world that
> we’re helping to pick it up!
>
>
> Popcorn Editor is a standalone version
> <https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor#readme> of the Popcorn
> Maker editor tool, and I’m going to be helping with integrating that into
> MediaWiki. We’ve got a milestone in the bug tracker
>
<https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor/milestones/Wikimedia%20proof%20of%20concept>
> and everything. [image: :)]
>
>
> If you’re interested in helping out, we’re going to have some work
> sprints at WikiConference USA
> <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Main_Page> next weekend in
> Washington, DC. Please come and help out!
>
> -- brion
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