[New thread for the discussions started by brion, Ivan, James and others on becoming video-friendly and building a community of video editors and curators. Was "*Re: We need more interactive content.*"]
James Heilman wrote: > With VideoWiki we have been able to create some higher quality content > with a partner at MyUpchar. The text was written by us, the individual > short animations were done by them, and then the tool combines it all > together with text to speech. Hope to get the tool working again soon: > https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Video:Tuberculosis > A nice example of a) creating a space explicitly to develop new tools and encourage one another in using them; b) trialing a workflow that can be automated at need. Text-to-speech and animation tools have also advanced tremendously since that was produced; this is also becoming an important channel for more mainstream media (I see the spammers taking over mainstream social media with it as well, in how-tos, education, news, sports, and leisure). SJ On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 obsolete. > > What I am referring to is all that multimedia material that is visual, > that can be made into video to complement articles. The process you mention > is complicated, but not impossible, in fact, there are many of us editors > who have all those skills already implemented in the projects. > >> >> > By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure >> encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there. >> > brion wrote: > My recommendations for Wikimedia Foundation on this subject: > 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 creating h.264 transcodes for playback compatibility. > 2) Create an interactive media team with at least two engineers, a > designer, and a project manager > 3) Give this team a remit to rebuild *and maintain in an ongoing fashion* > the existing TimedMediaHandler, Graphs, Score, 3D, etc extensions > 4) Integrate those tools cleanly with mobile apps and social media > embedding tools managed by other teams
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