I just tried to watch some presentation videos from Wikimania.
Some had very weak sound, some had no sound in the first minutes,
some only played the first minute and then stopped. I don't think
the Wikimania videos are unique in having such problems. Video is
new to Commons, and the expert contributors are more familiar with
still images.
How can we learn to make better videos? Are there some good
instructions? Perhaps a free instruction video (Wikibooks, but a
video instead of a book) on how to produce good videos is what we
need. In fact, the English Wikibooks has a title on "Video
Production", http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Production but it
doesn't have a clear focus (pun not intended). It starts out with
discussing satellite TV and has long sections on file formats in
different operating systems.
There is a help page on Commons for converting video to the Ogg
Theora format, but that is only the last step in a long chain.
Given that video is new, how can we find and rate videos, nominate
"good/featured videos", and give advice on how to improve quality?
Is the Commons village pump enough for this? Commons has a
separate graphics village pump. Do we also need a separate video
village pump?
Current digital video cameras use hard disks or memory cards,
instead of tape cassettes. Many new models cost less than 300
euro (or dollars), some as little as 120 euro (memory card perhaps
not included). Some have a special "Youtube mode", and I guess
that kind of usage is what drives the price down. What models are
good, and what should one watch out for?
We can find free still photos on Flickr and copy them to Commons.
Is there somewhere we can find free videos and copy them? Yes, at
the Internet Archive. Somewhere else?
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
For comparison, following a question elsewhere, I extracted from
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data/Mediacounts a list of
wav/flac/ogg files with at least 5 usages and 1 MB transferred in a
random day, see
http://koti.kapsi.fi/~federico/tmp/mediacounts-audio-top.2015-07-27.v00.csv
Top 10 by transfer:
/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Facebook.ogg 46534382349 3210
/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Hino-Nacional-Brasil-instrumental-mec.ogg
33898670098 4062
/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Star_Spangled_Banner_instrumental.ogg
27888811944 8686
/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Youtube_spoken_word.ogg 24180292370 2105
/wikipedia/commons/5/59/The_Stars_and_Stripes_Forever_-_U.S._Navy_Band.ogg
24120357844 2853
/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Ludwig_van_Beethoven_-_Symphonie_5_c-moll_-_1._Allegro_con_brio.ogg
23016515737 3368
/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Toccata_et_Fugue_BWV565.ogg 20744014775 3531
/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/On_Craftsmanship_-_the_only_surviving_recording_of_Virginia_Woolf.flac
19445080418 5140
/wikipedia/commons/0/02/National_Anthem_of_Russia_(2000)%2C_three_verses.ogg
18796074983 2309
/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart_-_Symphony_40_g-moll_-_1._Molto_allegro.ogg
17610053995 1910
Nemo
Brian Wolff, 26/07/2015 22:06:
> So I just recently discovered that WMF is now publishing stats for media files.
>
> So in terms of most popular videos, it seems to be mostly space and
> porn. (This list is url of file minus the https://upload.wikimedia.org
> part then a comma, then the number of downloads on 2015-07-25)
>
> /wikipedia/commons/9/92/Cynopterus_sphinx_fellatio_no_music.ogg,58270
> /wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Andromeda_and_Milky_Way_collision.ogg,2036
> /wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Ejaculation_Educational_Demonstration.OGG,1819
> /wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Erection_development_animated.ogv,1035
> /wikipedia/commons/e/e0/A_handjob_video.ogv,981
> /wikipedia/commons/7/73/Male_masturbation_followed_by_ejaculation.ogv,928
> /wikipedia/commons/6/64/Agenor_fait_un_levage.ogv,811
> /wikipedia/commons/9/94/Debbie_Does_Dallas.ogg,750
> /wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Tourette's_tic_long_medium_192kbps.OGG,740
> /wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Spontaneous-Ejaculation-in-a-Wild-Indo-Pacific-Bottlenose-Dolphin-(Tursiops-aduncus)-pone.0072879.s001.ogv,648
> /wikipedia/commons/3/31/L'heure_du_th%C3%A9.ogv,634
> /wikipedia/commons/3/31/Ziteil%2C_aerial_video_with_interior_view.webm,617
> /wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Speedsolving_a_3%C3%973%C3%973_Rubik's_Cube_with_Fridrich_Method.ogg,602
> /wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Condom_placement_demonstration.ogv,582
> /wikipedia/commons/1/12/Hypospadias_penis_masturbation.webm,578
> /wikipedia/commons/5/58/Ap17-ascent.ogg,566
> /wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Massages.ogv,510
> /wikipedia/commons/8/83/Elephants_Dream_(high_quality).ogv,496
> /wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Miss_Butterfly.ogv,496
> /wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Simulaci%C3%B3n_Tsunami.ogv,480
> /wikipedia/commons/6/67/Pentagon_Security_Camera_1.ogv,476
> /wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Jupiter_from_Voyager_1_PIA02855_thumbnail_300px_max_quality.ogv,466
> /wikipedia/commons/9/94/A11v_1092338.ogg,446
> /wikipedia/commons/c/cb/A_male_masturbating_with_lubricant.ogv,427
> /wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Female-masturbation-electric-massager.ogv,418
>
> See more at https://dpaste.de/Yuym
>
> This comes from the top1000 csv zip files at
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediacounts/daily/2015/, using the
> mediacounts.2015-07-25.v00.sorted_key17.csv file.
>
> Anyways, thought it would be interesting to this list.
(Cc Commons-l; maybe continue there?)
Kenrick, 23/07/2015 06:20:
> is there any tool (on Tool Labs or elsewhere) to
> quickly upload those photos from cloud storage to Commons? If not, it
> may be a nice tool idea for me to work on. :)
This is a typical fit for digiKam/KIPI:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:KIPI_uploader
I'm not sure about Onedrive status, though it's mentioned somewhere in
their website; see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300445#c13
If, rather than in preserving metadata/organisation of the files, you
are interested in saving bandwidth, then it would be a logical expansion
of https://tools.wmflabs.org/flickr2commons/
Nemo
The switch to Pygments has caused Commons files generated using 'dot'
to no longer have syntax highlighting, and four are appearing in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_…
But that will likely expand to the 26 files in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_with_Graphviz_source_code
I couldn't see any language supported by Pygments which has similar
syntax, so we should probably set the lang=text for all 26.
Support for this language was requested in 2014, and you can vote for it at
https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/issues/1024
While on the topic, there is a nice extension which would provide
native support for this format.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz
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From: Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes
To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the
SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The
change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical
analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, called
Pygments.
The roll-out will remove support for 31 languages while adding support for
several hundred languages not previously supported, including Dart, Rust,
Julia, APL, Mathematica, SNOBOL, Puppet, Dylan, Racket, Swift, and many
others. See <https://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/geshi_changes.txt> for a
full list. The languages that will lose support are mostly obscure, with
the notable exception of ALGOL68, Oz, and MMIX.
The change is expected to slightly improve the time it takes to load and
render all pages on all wikis (not just those that contain code blocks!),
at the cost of a slight penalty (about a tenth of a second) on the time it
takes to save edits which introduce or modify a block of highlighted code
to an article.
Lastly, the way the extension handles unfamiliar languages will change.
Previously, if the specified language was not supported by the extension,
instead of a code block, the extension would print an error message. From
now on, it will simply output a plain, unhighlighted block of monospaced
code.
The wikitext syntax for highlighting code will remain the same.
-- Ori
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