James Heilman, All, Hello. That is good news about video within Wikipedia. If it hasn't been already explored, I would like to share an idea for "WikiVTT" features where end-users could collaboratively author and edit documents to be processed into various kinds of WebVTT tracks (e.g., timed-text cues, timed-JSON metadata cues, JS-interoperable event sequences, and more).
Best regards, Adam Sobieski [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VideoWiki [2] https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/ ________________________________ From: James Heilman via Wikimedia-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 10:56 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]>; Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <[email protected]> Cc: James Heilman <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Video within Wikipedia Hey All There has been the question, "will people watch videos on Wikipedia?" After many many years of work we are finally able to answer that question: 1) This video on Polio made with VideoWiki<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En.Video-Polio.webm> and which is in the lead of the EN WP article on the same subject, had its "play button" hit 3,619 times<https://mvc.toolforge.org/index.php?category=Videowiki×pan=now-90&rangestart=2026-06-10&rangeend=2026-09-07&limit=500&videoplays=on> over the last 3 months. 2) The English Wikipedia article on Polio during that time received 144,389 pageviews<https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?start=2026-06-10&end=2026-09-07&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Polio>. This means for this prominently placed video our readers play it about 2.5% of the time. Unfortunately we are unable to determine how much of the video was watched. Hopefully that will come in the future. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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