2012/4/24 Andrew Cates <andrew.ca...@soschildren.org> > Um. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video appear to all be > images relevant to the topic of videos. Not themselves videos. > > Sorry, a missing S, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos
> Owner? Not personally but I am the CEO of the charity which owns them and > I can release them. > > Is there any actual video anywhere on WP and in what format? > > Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_video_clips The prefered format is Theora https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Video > Andrew > ========== > (Please, press "Reply all" to send your e-mails to the mailing list too, and not just me) > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2012/4/24 Andrew Cates <andrew.ca...@soschildren.org> >> >>> I am wondering about releasing many hundreds of Africa educational videos >>> under creative commons. >>> >>> They are the videos currently at www.our-africa.org which is a child >>> generated reference site about Africa. >>> >>> There is a lot of material in the videos which could be edited and used >>> to >>> improve Wikipedia article (a solar kettle in operation, a maize plant >>> grinding maize, a variety of musical instruments in use, different >>> religious festivals, cocoa plantations etc etc) >>> >>> However at present Wikipedia does not seem to support or want video >>> material. >>> >> >> Wikipedia supports video with [[Media:]] tag. Also, Wikimedia Commons has >> a little collection of them >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video >> >> >>> >>> Does anyone have a feel whether this is likely to change? >>> >>> >> http://www.videoonwikipedia.com >> >> Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists >> (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, >> some people can help you in the process. >> >> >>> Andrew >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >> Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | >> StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> >> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | >> WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> >> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> >> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >> >> > -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l