[Wikipedia-l] Video uploaded...

[Robert Graham Merkel]

In the grand tradition of actually getting things done on Wikipedia, 
Wikipedian KSheka, with some assistance from myself to convert the video 
to Theora, has gone ahead and uploaded a video of an "echocardiograph 
demonstrating systolic anterior motion of the anterior leaflet of the 
mitral value", which, translated, I think means "a video of a beating 
heart with a valve that's moving wrongly"

You can see the article with the uploaded video at 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy

Now we actually *have* a video in a patent-unencumbered codec uploaded 
to Wikipedia, and the ability to make more of them (transcoding to Theora 
is pretty straightforward once you've got ffmpeg2theora installed), the 
discussion about video I posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/Video_policy
becomes a little more directly relevant...

>From my point of view, I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on
what we should do to make best use of video (one thing that comes to
mind is that we should always take a still from the video as
illustration, but more thoughts are good)...

Oh, and has there been any progress on implementing code for an approval
process?

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                                           Robert Merkel
                                     robert.merkel at benambra.org
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"And James Hird has just gone after Robert Harvey...that's like Bambi
attacking Bambi"
 -- Gerard Whately, Essendon vs. St Kilda, 3/4/2004
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