[Foundation-l] Wikimedia videos on Internet Archive

[Husky]

The internet archive is a very good initiative, and definitely one of
the most obvious choices for hosting media files like this. However, i
do think that we should at least have one place for ourselves to host
files like this, and / or have a very simple and direct connection to
the internet archive's upload functionality, preferably a way to
upload files directly from Wikimedia Commons ('Do you have a large
video file? Try our section at the internet archive').

-- Hay / Husky

On Feb 17, 2008 2:08 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > Cary Bass
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