Ah. Well if you're not even buying into the legitimacy of photos on Commons, I'm not sure there's a way to have a productive discussion about video.
-Andrew On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure what debate you're referring to. If it's about whether video > > belongs in Wikipedia, I don't think it's even in question. > > > > Wikipedia started in 2001 as all text. > > > > It didn't have photos then, we now have photos. > > It didn't have audio then, we now have audio. > > It didn't have video then, we now have video (albeit not that much). > > > > Video shouldn't need special justification to be a full-fledged part of > > Wikiepdia's content. > > > > > > > More specifically, if growing Commons as a repository for video in the same > way it is for images is the best use of Wikimedia resources. I'd think > lobbying Google to be more expansive in its license permissions for cc-by > YouTube videos, curating existing educational video content, etc. might > bear more fruit. Not to say that using video from Commons to illustrate > other projects isn't valuable, but hosting millions of videos not used on > any projects (as it is with images on Commons) seems like a misuse of time > and effort given the far more popular alternatives. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
