[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-29 Thread geni
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 05:07, Samuel Klein wrote: > ? Many creators say they are glad to relicense their existing fantastic > work, but don't have time/will to overcome the current obstacles to such > reuse that they have to [personally] overcome for each video. So we only get > bulk

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-29 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 12:57 PM Erik Moeller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 11:44 AM Brion Vibber > wrote: > > 1) Overturn the requirement to avoid handling h.264 files on Wikimedia > servers or > > accept them from users or serve them to users. Allow importing h.264 > uploads > > and

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development annual report 2023

2024-01-29 Thread Jan Ainali
Hello everyone, The 2023 annual report for the user group Wikimedians for Sustainable Development has been published: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2023 Best regards Jan Ainali ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-29 Thread Ivan Martínez
It is not difficult to do something that is already happening. By referring to encyclopedic videos I am talking about multimedia that can enrich existing content. I understand your point, it's a bit like what happened with the project of reading recorded Wikipedia articles that after years seem

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2024 Program Proposals submission deadline is closing soon (Wednesday, January 31)

2024-01-29 Thread Butch Bustria
My Fellow Wikimedian, Kind reminder! Deadline is this Wednesday, *January 31, 2024.* Do visit our program proposal submission page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2024/Submissions for details. Once selected by the Program Committee, you have at least have an option to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-29 Thread effe iets anders
Thanks Asaf, very true: I can totally see how the copyright issue would remain a big problem, even if you solve the technical challenges... I can see one solution to that (albeit farfetched): an analogue to a super rigorous referencing approach. I am imagining it's possible to verify in an

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:29 PM geni wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 at 05:07, Samuel Klein wrote: > > > ? Many creators say they are glad to relicense their existing > fantastic work, but don't have time/will to overcome the current obstacles > to such reuse that they have to [personally]