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

[Andrew Lih]

Ah. Well if you're not even buying into the legitimacy of photos on
Commons, I'm not sure there's a way to have a productive discussion about
video.

-Andrew



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what debate you're referring to. If it's about whether video
> > belongs in Wikipedia, I don't think it's even in question.
> >
> > Wikipedia started in 2001 as all text.
> >
> > It didn't have photos then, we now have photos.
> > It didn't have audio then, we now have audio.
> > It didn't have video then, we now have video (albeit not that much).
> >
> > Video shouldn't need special justification to be a full-fledged part of
> > Wikiepdia's content.
> >
> >
> >
> More specifically, if growing Commons as a repository for video in the same
> way it is for images is the best use of Wikimedia resources. I'd think
> lobbying Google to be more expansive in its license permissions for cc-by
> YouTube videos, curating existing educational video content, etc. might
> bear more fruit. Not to say that using video from Commons to illustrate
> other projects isn't valuable, but hosting millions of videos not used on
> any projects (as it is with images on Commons) seems like a misuse of time
> and effort given the far more popular alternatives.
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