The five available videos have been re-encoded to webm (mp4 is a non-free format) and released on Wikimedia Commons.[1] Some are already in use on the German Wikipedia.[2]
If ZDF copied their CC-BY videos to YouTube, there are several tools available that can assist mass uploading and encoding from YouTube. There is a convenient system for adding multiple language text captions to videos on Commons, perhaps a volunteer might want to make these more accessible this way?[3] Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_by_Terra_X 2. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimamodell 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Timed_Text Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 11:50, Lilli Iliev <lilli.il...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Germany's national public television broadcaster ZDF releases video clips and > photos on climate change and global warming under CC BY 4.0 for the first > time on this website: > https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.html > > Though there are things to improve, like adding a CC-button with more info on > correct licensing in each video, this his can be seen as a milestone and a > role model for more content and public service broadcasters like ARD to open > up and share content especially in the fields of news and documentation. > > After all, media under public law are publicly financed and using free > licences would correspond to their mission since they'd make a significant > contribution to the reach of public content. > > Feel free to share the news and make them visible on twitter and other > channels. > > Tweet by WMDE (german): > https://twitter.com/WikimediaDE/status/1186304730932355072 > > Blogpost on netzpolitik.org (german): > https://netzpolitik.org/2019/zdf-veroeffentlicht-terra-x-clips-unter-freier-lizenz/ > > best > Lilli > -- > Lilli Iliev > > Projektmanagerin Politik > project manager public policy > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > https://wikimedia.de > > Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit > teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
