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
Greetings,
The Structured Data on Commons team [0] has a new feedback request up on
Wikimedia Commons, concerning potential designs for Multilingual Caption
support in the Upload Wizard [1] Information can be found on the page
linked below, as well as space for feedback and discussion.
Thank you for your time, see you on the wiki.
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
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Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
As part of the Structured Data on Commons program, Jonathan Morgan and
Sandra Fauconnier were able to interview a number of GLAM project
participants or include them in a survey, to examine how Commons is used by
that community and how we could support them. In the research, they
highlight a number of both social and technological challenges faced by
that group, alongside the needs of the Commons community.
I highly recommend either reading the report, or watching the the video
documented at:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Just found about him from the credits of a popular video tutorial:
https://www.joshwoodward.com/faq
(I see he's also mentioned on a page of the Creative Commons wiki, my
ignorance.)
It would be nice to make a blog post/interview with him about how a free
license is not incompatible with earning money, even for musicians.
Federico
Yuck.
That said, perhaps we should think about integrating a link to a
CC-friendly printshop that can produce prints roughly at cost, perhaps with
the WP URL and license on the back. (prints are basically the only service
'fineartamerica' provides.)
In the US I use shortrunposters, ~$4 for a 2'x3' print (so, 5% the cost of
fineartamerica); I bet there are others.
SJ
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON <
vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> TLDR: someone is stealing WLM photo on https://fineartamerica.com/
> profiles/paul-fearn.html?tab=artwork&page=11 :/
>
> Longer story: WMFR just received an OTRS message from a WLM competitor who
> discovered that someone is wrongly taking credits for its WLM photos (and
> other WLM files and other files from Commons apparently) on the
> fineartamerica website. This competitor send a mail to this website and
> asked if WMFR can help in any way.
> So now, I'm sending you this mail to know whether you had to deal with
> things like this or if you have any ideas of what should be done.
>
> Cdlt, ~nicolas
>
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