</lurk> Wayne Mackintosh writes: > It is possible to upload videos to the Wikimedia Commons in free file > formats and embed within WikiEducator which meets all our requirements for > free cultural works approved licensing. This works well for videos of > general interest, but not ideal for video material which is too specific, > for example an video introduction for a WikiEducator course which is not > hosted within the Wikimedia projects. I don't think it's ethical to use the > free hosting services of the Wikimedia Foundation for initiatives which are > out of scope with the Wikimedia family of projects.
This seems fine to me, as a Commons user. Commons is for any freely licensed educational media -- if it's of use to anyone in the world, even if it's not currently used on any other Wikimedia site, it's appropriate to host on Commons. > fault of their own. The practice where some employers lock down desktop > machines restricting the users freedom to download the codecs to play free > file format videos is sadly widespread. While respecting freedom of choice - > we do not wish to deny any educator or learner from viewing video material. Speaking of Commons... this would have been a healthy point to discuss in the MP4 debate on Commons two months back. We should address it in the future. > and BlipTV would automatically mirror a copy of the file on the Internet > Archive. What about uploading directly to IA? > At a technical level, the OER Foundation could host video material on our > servers (including server side conversion service for those who are unable > to upload video in free file formats.) However, as a small non-profit > Foundation -- we do not have the funding to cover these costs at this time. Wikimedians are discussing similar issues on the WM multimedia list, and there is an effort afoot to channel uploads to the Internet Archive so that they can be transcoded from any source format into multiple viewing formats. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-March/000130.html It would help move that conversation along to have active users and reusers of video, like the wikieducator community, posting thoughts on what you use and need. Warmly, Sam -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
