[Foundation-l] New project : movies.mediawiki.org?

[Sabine Cretella]

Hi Magnus,

as for a general repository you could already use commons for it 
creating .ogg thora files. I did it myself and it is quite easy to do 
that. But it seems that there is one difficulty: the high resolution. I 
was not able to create high resolution .ogg files and other formats 
cannot be uploaded to commons.

As for free web TV there is one that already has over 3100 
films/documentaries/interviews etc. online
http://www.arcoiris.tv

The website at this moment is online only in Italian, Spanish and 
Portuguese (a translation into other languages would not be too 
difficult)  - contents are available in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, 
English, French, German (only one), international (without words). Of 
course most films are in Italian (over 3000). It is an online tv without 
advertising in the films and withour censorship. I know for sure that 
they are actively searching for further contents and they are going the 
gfdl way where possible. Of course the films on their website have 
different licenses and copyright.

So basically WikiVideo would have the same problem like commons: it 
should use .ogg theora and therefore the resolution would not be the 
highest - so commons could also be used (??).

Wouldn't it make sense to go both ways? On one hand the .ogg theora 
repository (on commons) and on the other a free web TV that would not 
have problems to use for example mpeg files?

As for program guides etc. there is a website of all available web tvs 
around - I just cannot find the link - if wished I can pass you this 
link (just need to search a bit).

I would like to keep this discussion not influenced by who is who 
questions - so I for now will not describe who arcoiris.tv belongs to. I 
would like to know your objective opinion about co-operating with such 
an organisation.

Thank you and have a great evening/good night (depending on where you 
live :-)

Ciao, Sabine


Magnus Manske wrote:

>I am currently writing an application to manage my movie collection, and
>looked around for online sources I can use to aid me in entering movie
>information. I found amazon, which has a nice SOAP interface to their
>DVD section. Then I looked at IMDB, which AFAIK is owned by amazon as
>well, only to discover that they
>* charge for database access /starting at $10000/
>* explicly forbid HTML scraping
>
>I remembered Jimbos 10-point-speech at Wikimaina. "Free the TV
>programs"? Maybe we should free the movie information as well.
>
>A wiki site based on WikiData (how's it going, BTW?;-) would be ideal to
>do this. It would
>* provide information for all the wikipedias
>* provide information for the fre TV program listings :-)
>* prove information for applications like the one I'm working on
>
>For such a service, I would volunteer to integrate an upload function
>into my software, making it possible to gather/write movie information
>within the software and then upload it to WikiVideos (tm).
>
>
>So, how about it? Or is there some large, free (in both ways) online
>database that I've missed?
>
>Magnus
>  
>


	

	
		
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