> > I would also help you with moving the files from Youtube to Commons but > Youtube doesn't allow downloading them. I could hack it and grab the FLV > stream and transcode that but I'd rather would like to get the files > directly from you to minimize quality loss. Is there a way you can share > the rendered files - in whatever original format they are? > I can also offer a FTP upload. >
If you want to upload the original videos, and as such, want them downloaded, you can try the tool, clipconverter.cc I haven't noticed quality loss using the above tool. However, the videos will be in .mp4 formats. > > > /Manuel > > On 02/10/2015 09:42 AM, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > > I couldn't upload even a single video of what I did to Wikimedia > > Commons. For whatever reasons, it doesn't WORK. uploading to YouTube > > happens at a breeze. Wikimedia Commons? its a no no. > > > > All the 6 edited videos on YouTube[1]. I've marked the ones that are > > CC-BY-SA license compliant. (those that aren't yet will be very soon). > > Subtitling will also be added soon. > > > > I won't be uploading the videos to Commons, therefore. If anyone here is > > interested to upload to Commons, you can download the videos from > > youtube in .webm formats, and upload to Commons. > > > > I wrote a blog[2] outlining how the doing of all these videos started > > and ended (I touch on why I'm not uploading to Commons in the article. > > With all due respect to WMF and the upload tool devs, the Upload tool, > > both form and wizard, are broken!) > > > > Will it be in context to write about what went on in getting the videos > > done on Wikimedia Blog? > > > > Please get in touch if there's any issue with any of the videos on > > YouTube. thanks > > -- > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | Africa Center <http://africacenter.net> | WiR <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence> | WikiAfrica <http://wikiafrica.net> | User:Nkansahrexford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford>
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