On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Michael Dale<md...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
> Once you factor in the ratio of video to non-video content for the
> for-seeable future this comes off looking like a time wasting
> boondoggle.
>

I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be uploaded.
Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles are
not *that* cheap. There is a lot of free video out there and as soon as we
have a stable system in place wikimedians are going to have a heyday
uploading it to Commons.
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