--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Gena" <compumaven...@...> wrote: > > First saw this on Slashdot: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/2211229/Wikipedia-To-Add-Video?from=rss > > Then I followed the link to a CNet article: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10269308-17.html > > and MIT's technology review: > http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22900/page1 > > If Wikipedia does this with some of the wish list that Michael Verdi was > talking about is it possible that Wikipedia can become the new YouTube? > > Or a new source of video propaganda? Or a new source of documentation by > users? Will Ogg Video finally rise from the underground? > > Questions. I got a million of them. > > Gena >
>From the articles it sounds like initially the "Add Media" button will allow >you to add Ogg Theora video from Wikimedia and Internat Archive and perhaps >others. So you'd need to upload there first. What would really be cool is to have the wiki capability for editing video. So edit histories can be gone back to (and branched off of) for people to create different edits at any time and point. -- Enric
