Wikipedia Pushes for Users to Add Videos - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Three nonprofit groups -- Miro, Mozilla Drumbeat, and the Open Video Alliance -- began a campaign this month with support from the Wikimedia Foundation encouraging users to upload videos onto the Web site. Wikipedia asks that videos be short, under 100MB, and comply with the encyclopedia's rules. Ben Moskowitz, general director of the Open Video Alliance, said he had talked with a number of universities interested in adding their content to the Web site or participating in data mobbing -- using small groups to reach a measured goal such as improving a specific area of Wikipedia. He declined to give names, saying talks are still preliminary...."

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Wikipedia-Pushes-for-Users-to/22035/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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Tags:

oa.new oa.video oa.wikipedia

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 19:09

Date published:

03/25/2010, 14:03