On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/8/1 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>:
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > Oh hell yes. If I could just upload any AVI or MPEG4 straight off a
>> > camera, you bet I would. Just imagine what people who've never heard
>> > the word "Theora" will do.
>>
>> Even if so, I don't think assuming that every single commons upload at
>> the current rate will instead be a 15-minute video is much of an
>> underestimate...
>>
>> -Kat
>>
>
> A reasonable estimate would require knowledge of how much free video can be
> automatically acquired, it's metadata automatically parsed and then
> automatically uploaded to commons. I am aware of some massive archives of
> free content video. Current estimates based on images do not necessarily
> apply to video, especially as we are just entering a video-aware era of the
> internet. At any rate, while Gerard's estimate is a bit optimistic in my
> view, it seems realistic for the near term.
>

Sorry, looked up to the wrong message - Gregory's estimate.
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