[Wikivideo-l] OpenCourseware videos, video players, and more

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Thanks, Sam. Another opportunity here may be for the community to help define new citation standards for time-based media. There are no commonly accepted practices yet - still - for how to write and punctuate references to film and sound in captions, footnotes, and bibliographies. 

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From: Samuel Klein [mailto:meta.sj at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 08:24 PM
To: 'Opportunities for video in the Wikimedia universe,	tech help'
Cc: 'Wikimedia Commons'
Subject: Re: [Wikivideo-l] OpenCourseware videos, video players, and more

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Erik Moeller  wrote:> 2011/2/10 Samuel Klein :>> OCW wants a failproof way to instruct people to set up their browsers>> so that our media player works.>> Use Flash video. *ducks*This comment did come up :) The OCW staff were sympathetic andappreciated the fact that Wikipedia is a visible proponent of the needfor a free toolchain. But they want to convince professors who may beon the fence about releasing their videos under a free licensecomfortable with it. Profs who appreciate these subtletie won't be onthe fence.> The best you can do for now is recommend people install Firefox (you> may want to use the beta for the best experience).OK. That addresses the first Q; I will recommend profs be pointed here:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/I hope to have more progress/uploads in time for the Free Culturegathering next weekend.At some point a table like this one specifically for compatibilitywith our player would be useful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Table< Q3: Do we have historical stats on the # of media files in Commons byfiletype or mediatype?Or current stats? Hans Westerhof at the Dutch Institute for Sound andVision joined for the meeting (he is visiting Cambridge for a month)and said that the 1000 news clips they've uploaded made up 10% of thevideo on Commons at the time. I wonder if that's still the case.< Q5: why is the link to the permissions email still so hard to find?I am inclined to point people to special:uploadwizard, another finebeta, even though it elides this part of the permissions process, andto encourage them to categorize uploads with a simple memorable tag.It would be useful to be able to generate an upload URL that has a setof categories already included as an argument, so that everyone usingthat URL would have those tags applied to uploaded media.< Q6: do we still have that 100MB file size limit? can we change this to 500MB?Should this be asked on wikitech instead?Sam.-- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266_______________________________________________Wikivideo-l mailing listWikivideo-l at lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
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