[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

[Chad Horohoe]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2014/1/16 Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com>:
> > As much as I am pushing for MP4 adoption in Wikimedia to help our lagging
> > video efforts, MPEG-4 patent holders/licensors are not helping their
> case:
> > [snip]
>
> I worry more about the "no, because that would mean more video content
> uploaded to commons" votes (see Rilke, Turelio). I find it disturbing
> that we got to a point were we basically *refuse* new contributions.
>

Me too. Anytime I see a "but it will enable bad contributions" argument for
reasons not to do things I get a little sad. Every well-meaning contribution
should be valued, IMHO.

-Chad