Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Nkansah Rexford
I couldn't upload even a single video of what I did to Wikimedia Commons. For whatever reasons, it doesn't WORK. uploading to YouTube happens at a breeze. Wikimedia Commons? its a no no. All the 6 edited videos on YouTube[1]. I've marked the ones that are CC-BY-SA license compliant. (those that

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Nkansah, yes, uploading on Commons for files 100 MB is not easy. A modern browser supporting chunked uploads using the new Commons upload wizard supports up to 1 GB. The Video Convert tool on WMF labs that has been proposed to you for the WebM encoding supports several GBs, transcodes to

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Nkansah Rexford
I would also help you with moving the files from Youtube to Commons but Youtube doesn't allow downloading them. I could hack it and grab the FLV stream and transcode that but I'd rather would like to get the files directly from you to minimize quality loss. Is there a way you can share the

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Scholarship Application Deadline is Approaching!

2015-02-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Does the cc to the wmfall list mean that WMF staff also have to apply via the standard scholarship process, to get travel funding? If so, nice idea! Ellie Young, 09/02/2015 20:55: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships I see phase 1 and phase 2 criteria would be fit for WMF

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Daniel Schwen
Youtube doesn't allow downloading them. I could hack it and grab the FLV If you want to upload the original videos, and as such, want them downloaded, you can try the tool, clipconverter.cc I think Manuel knows _how_ to download youtube videos (youtube-dl for example). The point is that

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Documentary Done

2015-02-10 Thread Tisza Gergő
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: yes, uploading on Commons for files 100 MB is not easy. A modern browser supporting chunked uploads using the new Commons upload wizard supports up to 1 GB. Uploading of 100+M files with Upload Wizard