On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > This past weekend, at the SXSW conference, a new initiative > was launched to "get video on Wikipedia", > http://videoonwikipedia.org/ > > That sounds like a great idea. > > (I wasn't there, but I was told.) > > But among the first videos to be uploaded since the > announcement are two that show some construction > equipment and both break my browser every time I try > to watch them. How can this be possible with a fully > updated Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8 on Ubuntu Linux? > > I suppose something went wrong in the OGG encoding, > but still, browsers should not be fooled by this, > and/or Wikimedia Commons needs to make sure videos > are correctly encoded so they can be safely watched. > > I have asked that these two broken videos be removed, > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6hpPowerTrowel.ogv > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13hpBoren.ogv > > We discussed for a long time why OpenOffice documents > can't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons because the > ZIP encoding wasn't safe and could explode in the > face of the user. Well, maybe OGG isn't safe either? > > Should we just ban video all together?
You mean like you marked them as "speedy-delete" because your browser doesn't like them? They work fine for me, and probably for most other people, but so what? _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
