Thanks Roan and Tomasz for all yours hard work making our videos available also on Commons!
Itzik (WMIL) On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jul 13, 2012 9:32 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Videos on YouTube have been uploaded soon, but the full coverage only > two months ago, not before making a WMF server crash to convert them. > > That's right, I started the conversion job on Friday, and when I came back > on Monday the server had died and had to be powercycled. > > A large part of the delay was in getting the videos to us: IIRC, we > received the Big External HD With Videos in January or February, on the > wrong side of the country (SF instead of Virginia). The rest of the delay > was in setting up a conversion server, a few technical issues with it, and > people (mostly me) doing this work on the side and getting bogged down with > their "actual" work. Me moving halfway across the world didn't help either. > > So all in all there were long delays on the organization side and on the > Foundation side. I apologize for the delays caused on the WMF side, and I > want to give a shout-out to Tomasz Kozłowski (User:Odder), the awesome > volunteer who helped me transcode the videos, checked my work, and provided > file descriptions and better file names for the videos. Thanks Tomasz! > > As for 2012 and beyond, I'll send an e-mail to the organizers soon with > guidelines for getting the videos to us in a way that's useful to us; a lot > of the WMF-side delay was because the data we got wasn't as useful as it > should have been, so we probably didn't xommunicate what we needed well > enough. I'll try to publish that information on meta as well where possible > (I may not be allowed to publish things like addresses). > > Roan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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