[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

[emijrp]

2012/4/24 Andrew Cates <andrew.cates at soschildren.org>

> Um. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video appear to all be
> images relevant to the topic of videos. Not themselves videos.
>
>
Sorry, a missing S, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos


> Owner? Not personally but I am the CEO of the charity which owns them and
> I can release them.
>
> Is there any actual video anywhere on WP and in what format?
>
>
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_video_clips

The prefered format is Theora
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video


> Andrew
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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2012/4/24 Andrew Cates <andrew.cates at soschildren.org>
>>
>>> I am wondering about releasing many hundreds of Africa educational videos
>>> under creative commons.
>>>
>>> They are the videos currently at www.our-africa.org which is a child
>>> generated reference site about Africa.
>>>
>>> There is a lot of material in the videos which could be edited and used
>>> to
>>> improve Wikipedia article (a solar kettle in operation, a maize plant
>>> grinding maize, a variety of musical instruments in use, different
>>> religious festivals, cocoa plantations etc etc)
>>>
>>> However at present Wikipedia does not seem to support or want video
>>> material.
>>>
>>
>> Wikipedia supports video with [[Media:]] tag. Also, Wikimedia Commons has
>> a little collection of them
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a feel whether this is likely to change?
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.videoonwikipedia.com
>>
>> Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists
>> (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them,
>> some people can help you in the process.
>>
>>
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Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> |
StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es>
| WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> |
WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com>
| WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/>
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/