Thanks for this, Sage, In the Basque Wikipedia we have been working with video (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela) and multimedia (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Ondarea/Euskal_Herriko_historia_100_objektutan/Podcast) in the last years. There's some opposition in English Wikipedia to add videos into articles (looking at video as inferior to text), but this is something that can be socially worked. There are lots of high quality videos published under a free license, and nothing stops us to make videos for articles, other than the social discussion about their inclusion.
Best, Galder ________________________________ From: James Heilman via Wikimedia-l <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2026 7:47 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: James Heilman <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wiki, plus video [was Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call (essay)] WikiPlus appears to remove the current videos within Wikipedia articles. For example Polio has a video in the lead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio Made using VideoWiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Polio I do not see that video here https://wikiplus.video/topic/Polio/ Agree, we should integrate more videos into Wikipedia. We for example could directly add TED talks and Khan academy videos if we choose to. Great to see this sort of experimentation. James On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM Sage Ross via Wikimedia-l <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: TL;DR: https://wikiplus.video<https://wikiplus.video/> I see the recent developments in AI and the death of traditional Google-style search as peripheral to our real problem: Wikipedia doesn't have anything to offer to an audience that mainly turns to video for knowledge instead of text (which is most of Gen Z and Gen Alpha). What Wikipedia offers an audience of text nerds (complimentary) is not — primarily — just more text. We have access to more published text than we know what to do with. Wikipedia offers a way to curate that text. For someone who has read enough about a topic to know the worthwhile texts from the trash, Wikipedia gives them a way to share they know about those texts. (The fact that creating Wikipedia is mostly about creating new text for readers is incidental, not essential, to this curation.) I think this concept of communal curation is what's missing from the video-centric information ecosystem. Just as most Wikipedia editors don't want to write the sorts of text they read and cite, the nerds who immerse themselves in learning from video don't necessarily want to create video. But they do — I believe — want to help curate knowledge and contribute what they know about which (video) sources are worthwhile, and fold that into the knowledge commons to help others. I've created a prototype for "Wiki+" — all the content of Wikipedia, plus video (from YouTube, etc) about the topic. As a reader, you get everything Wikipedia has to tell you about some topic, alongside the best of what video creators have to say about it. As a curator, you can find the best videos to complement the Wikipedia text, and add curation notes to provide context and flag errors. https://wikiplus.video<https://wikiplus.video/> -Sage On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM James Heilman via Wikimedia-l <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We have had falling readership for years now (when it comes to health content at least). And yes lately this has picked up. People are turning to AI for answers, Google "search engine" now provides AI answers at the top and then the rest is mostly adverts and their partner Mayo Clinic. We missed video, when Youtube exploded in popularity as a learning platform. We had a collaboration with Ozmosis for video content but the community sent them away. We are only just now developing infrastructure to determine if people watch the small number of videos we currently have (with some saying this is not needed as they believe the answer is few). Yes we are turning into a niche product. The internet has turned into a walled garden, with folks staying within their apps like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc. But what should we do? Some of us are working on introducing limited video but growth is slow. We fund abstract Wikipedia to the toon of millions. Revolutionary projects are hard to invent. This is not something the WMF can solve. But us being more of a niche project is also not the end of the world. James _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected]<mailto:[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/AQZFLXGR7JDV6MV4DMH6PVFVCVMP3F2H/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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