WikiTV
wikiTV (or Wikitelevision) is a sketch of a project wich may result in a television channel from Wikimedia in the far future. This page is more a dream, a vision and science-fiction, rather than a concrete project suggestion.
In the future where WikiTV takes place many people have mobile cameras and cell phones from which they can submit moving pictures to the Wikimedia servers in a flash. On the Wikimedia sites, people can edit their own programs and reports using the new MediaWikiVideo-tools and watch their programs with broadband connections.
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Once per hour the channel broadcasts an automaticly generated news report from Wikinews. Between these the WikiTV channel broadcasts documentaries and other knowledge-related programming produced by the different volunteers around the globe.
The programs will be avaiable both in a 24/7-running streamed channel and by downoading individual program streams from Wikimedia. If there is interest, satellite broadcasters may distribute the wikiTV-channels, as long as it follows the GNU FDL.
As time goes by there will be many channels. There will be main-WikiTV channels in many languages, but there may also be other channels, such as a dedicated news channel.
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