... Here's an example in which the Future Audience's AI-generated
shorts algorithm purports to excerpt a scene from a 1906 silent film
("The Witch") but surprise, it's in full color:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2yGegpU3whMI maintain that if we have to have these AI-generated shorts promotional videos, we need to get them from immediately contemporary content i.e. WP:25 than the system wikipedians set up decades ago for rewarding adding detail to obscure articles at WP:DYK. On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM Anonymous Account <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell, allmost all if not all of the videos at > https://www.youtube.com/@TheWikimediaFoundation/videos have comments > turned off. This includes today's Research Showcase (on which I wanted > to comment) and all the other Research Showcases going back years, all > of the recent WMF Board of Trustees candidates' statements, several > technical videos from the last three months alone, and hundreds of > others from the past year. On the other hand, there is absolutely no > protection on the Commons video file talk pages to which most of these > YouTube videos are mirrored, but there are never any links from the > YouTube videos' descriptions to the Commons media talk pages, which > would encourage discussion. > > Oddly, all of the "Future Audiences" AI-generated shorts content at > https://www.youtube.com/@Wikipedia/shorts do have comments enabled, > which is sad because they get so few views. Someone please remind me > why these are coming from the intentionally obscure WP:DYK article > topics instead of the almost certainly viral topics which could be > generated from WP:25 which had been promised to be evaluated by the > Future Audience team almost a year ago. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/M3QV3PJBYVHGVJTLZOYS7Y3MGUBWK7C6/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
