Comments on: Open Video Alliance Launches “Video on Wikipedia” Campaign

By: Kaltura and Partners Bringing Video to Wikipedia » Freeman Compression Inc.

Kaltura and Partners Bringing Video to Wikipedia » Freeman Compression Inc. — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:01:55 +0000

[...] Both sites serve as community and industry resources and have been launched as part of a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation believes that two things need to change for video on the web: video needs [...]

By: Wikipedia Signpost › Full 22 March Signpost, for those without access to the wiki

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:47:52 +0000

[...] Culture Foundation (makers of the Miro video platform)[1], and Wikimedia New York. Erik Möller welcomed the initiative on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, [...]

By: click.logg | Wikipedia vuole diventare più ricca con i video

click.logg | Wikipedia vuole diventare più ricca con i video — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:33:07 +0000

[...] [Approfondimenti: Wikimedia blog, ReadWriteWeb] [...]

By: Ryan Kaldari

Ryan Kaldari — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:51:13 +0000

I created a WikiProject on the English Wikipedia to coordinate with the Open Video Alliance’s project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lights_Camera_Wiki

By: Det finns ett skäl att det är krångligt att ladda upp bilder på Wikimedia Commons « Wikimedia Sverige

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:16:08 +0000

[...] Wikimedia Foundation har ett projekt som går ut på att göra Wikipedia enklare. Det här med uppladdning av bilder är en av de saker som det projektet har testat nubörjare på. Nu har de och Wikimedia Foundations tekniker, anställda på ett par likasinnade organisationer, samt frivilliga runt om på jorden, skapat grejer som tar det här ett par steg längre. Det ska till och med bli enklare att ladda upp filmer på Commons. [...]

By: filceolaire

filceolaire — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:53:07 +0000

Wikipedia Commons has already been very successful in getting people to upload images – including reproductions of art works, photographs of nature, architecture and anything else you can think of and diagrams.

There is also a thriving project there converting diagrams to SVG vector graphics – making the diagrams much more easily adapted or edited by anyone who wants to reuse them (provided they agree to share their changes).

Video is the next step. Once they sort out subtitle editing online this will be a very cool addition.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:18:22 +0000

Hi Manish,

this particular campaign is focused on video, but there are plenty of activities in the Wikimedia universe focused on image donations. Speaking of enthusiasts, just a few days ago we received an image donation pledge from Robert Lavinsky, PhD for 29,000 pictures of minerals:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Robert_Lavinsky

See my recent blog post on Enriching Wikimedia Commons for a summary of some other recent projects:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/27/enriching-wikimedia-commons-a-virtuous-circle/

And, check out the activities around our multimedia usability project:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/26/multimedia-usability-project-underway/

By: Manish Goregaokar

Manish Goregaokar — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:02:22 +0000

Shouldn’t the campaign include images? Some people love to make images in their spare time. Also nature enthusiasts have large repositories of self-taken photos which they like to show off. Sometimes teachers also make their own diagrams which could be uploaded. These people would willingly upload stuff like this, as they’ll feel that their work will finally get noticed by somebody.