[Foundation-l] Wikimedia videos on Internet Archive

[Pharos]

On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Husky <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some sort of policy on where (long) videos like this should
> go? I still have something like 10 hours or more video footage of the
> Dutch Wikimedia Conference, from october last year. I was thinking of
> uploading it on Commons, but is has to be transcoded to Theora (which
> i have done before, but is quite a hassle) and there seems to be some
> kind of file size limit (1 hour of video is very large of course). I
> could also upload the videos to the Wikimedia Nederland server (we
> have an account with about 200gb space), but it would seem better if
> there is some kind of general Wikimedia server for large files like
> this...
>
> -- Hay / Husky

I think the Internet Archive would be an ideal place for long videos, because:

1) They have an unlimited storage space, and no restrictions on video
length or file size (these are the people who literally archive the
entire internet, as best as they can)

2) They're an "allied" non-profit pro-free culture project.

3) We already have a bunch of long videos there, and hopefully they'll
be organized into a distinct sub-collection in the relatively near
future.

Thanks

> On Feb 15, 2008 7:41 PM, Cary Bass <cbass at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Pharos wrote:
> > > Currently all the Wikimedia videos (of various talks, activities, and
> > > conferences) on the Internet Archive are in the catch-all Open Source
> > > Movies collection.
> > >
> > > http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Wikimedia%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_movies
> > >
> > > Since we have quite a few of them, I suggest that we apply for a
> > > sub-collection in the Computers & Technology collection.  I've read
> > > that the usual requirement is for at least twenty videos, and we have
> > > quite a few more than that.
> > >
> > > http://www.archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos
> > >
> > > This way our videos would be better organized, and have a higher
> > > profile to the public.
> > >
> > > Who should I contact in WMF for official permission to apply for such
> > > a sub-collection?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > I can't see any way this would harm the work we do, and appears to
> > certainly benefit us.  Unless someone can find a compelling reason to go
> > against it, I say, go forward.
> >
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