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?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Hello Commons-l,
The Wikimedia Foundation, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, is
currently exploring an opportunity to potentially secure additional
resources to expedite development work on Structured Data for Commons [1].
In light of this, we would like feedback on a 3 year plan that potentially
accelerates software development for both Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata if
these resources should become available. We would like to invite you to
participate in a conversation about the plan [2] and look forward to your
comments and thoughts.
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Joseph Seddon & Alex Stinson
*Advancement Associate & **GLAM-Wiki Strategist*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview
Just wondering: would tighter integration between Wikidata and OSM help
with this situation, for example, if a set of coordinates is adjusted in
Wikidata then it is automatically adjusted in OSM and vice versa? Would
that be a good idea?
Pine
On Oct 4, 2016 22:17, "Sam Klein" <sjklein(a)hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > currently there is no clear indication within Wikipedia articles
> > and as far as I can tell within Wikidata as to both what *datum* and what
> > *version* any particular coordinate relates to, there is no guarantee
> that
> > any particular coordinate would be any more correct than it was before.
> >
>
> This definitely should be fixed on the wikidata side. Whether article
> editors are savvy enough to know and enter this data is another question;
> but at least the geotemplates should have fields for it and you can assume
> that if those are empty some {person/bot hybrid} that understands that
> nuance should fill them in.
>
> ~S
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G'day
This story raises an interesting question
http://www.sciencealert.com/turns-out-australia-isn-t-where-you-think-it-is
In short the GPS location of Australia is about to be adjusted 1.5m or
about 5feet I know its not as significant as the change of 1994 when it was
adjusted 200m. This shift that will alter all the GPS data held in
Wikidata and alter the positioning of media files which have been
geolocated.
The question is are there any plans to bulk update all of this information,
or will it rely on individual changes to be made to each piece of data. As
a secondary question do we even change the location of media files as that
data is accurate to when the media was created.
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nangarra
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