Submissions:2015/Video in Wikimedia: Today and Tomorrow

Title

Video in Wikimedia: Today and Tomorrow

Theme

Tech and community

Type of submission

Panel and workshop

Author

Andrew Lih, Brion Vibber

E-mail address

andrew.lih@gmail.com

Username

User:Fuzheado, User:Brion_VIBBER

Affiliation

American University, Wikimedia Foundation

Abstract

Proposed panelists:

• Andrew Lih, American University, Wiki Makes Video
• Brion Vibber, Wikimedia Foundation
• Mike Nolan, Mozilla
• Jake Johnson, Internet Archive

SUMMARY: In this session we describe how after a long period of stagnation, video has made huge strides in the Wikimedia movement in the last year. A visual content community has emerged with English Wikipedia growing to more than 7,000 articles with video through efforts such as Wiki Makes Video. In 2015, there were two big breakthroughs with the launch of ogvjs, a Javascript-based media player that allows for immediate Ogg Theora video playback in any modern browser and the creation of a "video editing server" prototype through efforts of the German chapter. We describe the technical and cultural obstacles in incorporating more video in the Wikimedia movement and discuss plans for the future that include working with the Mozilla Foundation and the Internet Archive for achieving the holy grail of wiki video creation – a fully distributed collaborative video editing ecosystem.

DETAILS:

• Overview
  • State of open video standards - Overview of Ogg Theora and WebM
  • Community RFC on using MPEG-4 - January 2014 RFC on video standards adoption and using patent encumbered formats
  • Implications of open source requirements for users, creators and uploaders - formats, editing tools, browsers, codecs
• Developments
  • Rationale, design and implementation of the German Schnittserver (editing server) project
  • Developing and launching ogvjs by Brion Vibber, a JavaScript media player using Ogg/Vorbis/Theora/Opus/WebM libs compiled with Emscripten source-to-source compiler
  • Overview of video content statistics and applications in English Wikipedia
  • Designing a fully distributed collaborative video editing ecosystem for the future
    • Partner: Mozilla Webmaker Popcorn - a browser-based multimedia assembly interface
    • Partner: Internet Archive for uploading, transcoding and storage
    • How to create a wiki-like workflow for distributed collaborative video production
      • What do video equivalents of edit history, diffs, recent changes, et al. look like?
      • How are functions like logging, storyboarding or script writing supported in such a system?
      • What additional tools might video makers need to collaborate?
• Workshop (time permitting, or in the Unconference)
  • One goal is to get feedback from the audience on how to create a "concept video" that best illustrates how a final system might function
  • What topic would be ideal to make a "footage call" so that anyone in the world could shoot video and contribute to a larger montage video?
  • What like-minded institutions or existing video communities should we be working with?

Length of presentation

45 to 60 minutes

Special schedule requests

Saturday preferred, for Brion Vibber's schedule

Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?

Yes

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