Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Archive/More Video on Commons

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More Video on Commons

N Proposes existing solution

Problem: Wikipedia is relaying too much on text whilst video is becoming more important as information source for new generation. To upload a video to commons you have to be a real techies to have the right format which is not obvious for anyone.
Who would benefit: all users: new generation and people who has reading difficulties
Proposed solution: provide a way to import open licence video from video platforms e.g. vimeo or provide a simple way to convert video to the acceptable commons format.
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Proposer: Yamen (talk) 13:18, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

c:Commons:Video2commons? -FASTILY 23:32, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Yamen: Does c:Commons:Video2commons work for you? MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:26, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Since we have not heard back from you, I'm going to archive this proposal. Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MusikAnimal (WMF):, apologies for not coming back to your question earlier. Yes the Video2commons tool works but it's producing very simple and not attractive videos. I was hoping that it could be improved in order to add some Ken Burns effects for example. besides that I was hoping to simplify the process of uploading a videos in commons (which is now very complicated as you need to convert the file beofre or uplaod it to a third party plateform like youtube and then import it back to common).Yamen (talk) 15:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]