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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. Rather not. by Nylathotep · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like wiki because it's such a clean, fast, text layout with nothing special. I don't see how this is going to improve things.

  2. Re:Hipocrisy or something near that. by icebike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its also proprietary, requiring a license to use their tools.

    Its an abusive technology, allowing no view controls other than blocking or de-installing flash all together.

    With the advent of HTML5, flash is NOT the way to go.

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  3. Re:Weird story gender... by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you acknowledge that all three possibilities offered by the English language are flawed, but you still criticise the author for picking one you evidently have a problem with?

    For heaven's sake - get over it.

  4. Re:There's just one problem... by Jurily · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apparently the feminists won and we're so fucking PC now that there are no males on the internet.

    Let's face it: in English, if you talk about someone, you either have to specify his/her gender, or pretend they're more than one person.

  5. Re:There's just one problem... by gigabites2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technically, that's grammatically incorrect. A singular object referred to as a plural object, as was mentioned above. The correct way to do so would be to say he or she or his or her. I suppose we could be like the French and assume the male gender. Then again, why assume? This is Slashdot!