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

[Patrick Collison]

When Magnus refers to "WikiVideos", I don't think he means storing  
the actual movies at all---rather, creating an online repository of  
information about them (as he said, a la WikiData)

-Patrick

On 11 oct. 05, at 23:33, Sabine Cretella wrote:

> 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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