Dear [email protected], I am both an active Wikimedian, and a senior member of the Wikinews community; a sister site to Wikipedia where we do our best to work as citizen journalists.
I have encountered Fora.TV content in the past and found it to be extremely well put together, intelligent and articulate, and have just made use of a couple of the "teasers" on your YouTube channel to illustrate points on Facebook and elsewhere. I would love to see this content on Wikipedia, and have the option to use it in my home project, Wikinews. Of course, I would not expect you to make available your full-length features, it is the 5-10 minute excerpts on YouTube I'd like. This would involve releasing these excerpts under a quite liberal license and uploading them to Wikipedia's media repository. I would be delighted to discuss the potential issues with this, and some of the technical considerations. As a participant on Wikinews, an arrangement enabling this would be particularly newsworthy to me - and an opportunity to illustrate an article with samples of these excerpts. I would also expect that one or more of these excerpts would end up featuring on your Wikipedia page[1], putting it in a rare class - Wikipedia articles with video content. Regards, [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fora_tv -- Brian McNeil <[email protected]> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects.
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