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Wikipedia To Add Video

Posted by Soulskill on from the there-goes-another-five-percent-of-my-day dept.

viyh writes "Wikipedia will be adding a video option within two or three months, according to the MIT Technology Review. '... a person editing a Wikipedia article will find a new button labeled "Add Media." Clicking it will bring up an interface allowing her to search for video — initially from three repositories containing copyright-free material — and drag chosen portions into the article, without having to install any video-editing software or do any conversions herself. The results will appear as a clickable video clip embedded within the article.' They will be requiring all video to use open-source formats. This is in hopes of getting content providers to open up their material to gain wider exposure on the Wikipedia website. There is also an in-browser editor that removes a lot of the headache often associated with any kind of video editing. With the new Wikipedia system, 'people will be able to easily inject media into pages, in a way that wasn't possible before,' says Michael Dale, a software engineer from Kaltura, the company assisting with development of the tools."

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  1. Wikipedia will use "open-source formats" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know/care about kaltura, but from TFA:

    Key to Wikipedia's video effort--[...]--is Wikipedia's insistence that any video passing into its pages be based on open-source formats.

  2. Title is misleading by geniice · · Score: 4, Informative

    Title is somewhat misleading. Wikipedia has had video for years. For example scroll down at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_C8 or for direct to video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_C8_towing.ogv

  3. Re:I can see a problem by merreborn · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "Porn" entry bring down the whole Wikipedia site in the first hour.

    It's already begun... (sauce [nsfw])

  4. Re:Weird story gender... by camperdave · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wish "they" was just correct.

    "They" is hereby correct by declaration. If somebody doesn't like it they can bite my shiney metal... pen. If it ever comes up, you can site this post.

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  5. Re:Weird story gender... by seyyah · · Score: 2, Informative

    so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.

    NO! Stop! Singluar "they" is good English grammar. It has been in our language for hundreds of years (it passes the Shakespeare test, i.e. he used it), and it is well-established today. Use it!