Thank you so much for sharing this, Dr. James. This aligns closely with the vision behind the Wiki Loves Broadcast project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Broadcast>, which I co-presented <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Wikipedia_and_public_television_-_a_match_made_in_heaven%3F> with colleagues from WMDE at Wikimania Katowice.
I believe integrating video content into Wikipedia would be a truly powerful combination, a match made in heaven. Warm regards, Sadik On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM James Heilman via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey All > > There has been the question, "will people watch videos on Wikipedia?" > After many many years of work we are finally able to answer that question: > > 1) This video on Polio made with VideoWiki > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En.Video-Polio.webm> and which > is in the lead of the EN WP article on the same subject, had its "play > button" hit 3,619 times > <https://mvc.toolforge.org/index.php?category=Videowiki×pan=now-90&rangestart=2026-06-10&rangeend=2026-09-07&limit=500&videoplays=on> > over the last 3 months. > > 2) The English Wikipedia article on Polio during that time received 144,389 > pageviews > <https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?start=2026-06-10&end=2026-09-07&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Polio>. > This means for this prominently placed video our readers play it about 2.5% > of the time. Unfortunately we are unable to determine how much of the video > was watched. Hopefully that will come in the future. > > Best > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/4UVPQC5WEBB6KVK67MDRRX26FWNHMXOH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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