Video Coming to Wikipedia......Will be Viewable on Microsoft Explorer Too

One of the most anticipated developments in Web video will be the implementation of open source video into Wikipedia. The recent launch of Firefox 3.5 will support the Ogg format, which will be needed to view Wikipedia videos. Although Explorer does not support Ogg, Wikipedia video watchers using the Microsoft program will be able to watch videos in a Java video player, according to Michal Tzur, co-founder and president of Kaltura. While Firefox is surely browser of choice for the Wikipedia community, the site probably gets most queries using Explorer.  So, the use of back up playback format will be key.   Wikipedia has about 63 million unique visitors in June according to Compete.Kaltura is the open source video platform which is working on the new video platform for Wikipedia.  At the Open Video Conference last month, I spoke with Michal about the project. Andy Plesser, Executive ProducerVideo TranscriptMichal Tsur:  Our idea is that users should be able to use video just the same way they’re using text. So the thought is that the way they can very easily edit text articles, they should be able to very easily upload a video to each of the Wikipedia articles and then edit it, create sequences, and then other people in a participatory manner will be able to add additional videos to a sequence and remix it the same way it is done with the images right now on Wikipedia. Andy Plesser:  Okay, so, uh, how will that work? Kind of explain a little bit more about about the process of uploading and also editing. Michal Tsur:  Okay so from the user perspective, there will be just another link on any of the article pages allowing the users to upload a video to any Wikipedia page, and then once there is a video asset on the page, users will be able to very easily click an edit button and edit that video by adding to it, by clipping pieces out of it, by adding annotations on it in the future, and hopefully in some moment in the future later they'll also add transcr...

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