Wikipedia To Add Video 165
viyh writes "Wikipedia will be adding a video option within two or three months, according to the MIT Technology Review. '... a person editing a Wikipedia article will find a new button labeled "Add Media." Clicking it will bring up an interface allowing her to search for video — initially from three repositories containing copyright-free material — and drag chosen portions into the article, without having to install any video-editing software or do any conversions herself. The results will appear as a clickable video clip embedded within the article.' They will be requiring all video to use open-source formats. This is in hopes of getting content providers to open up their material to gain wider exposure on the Wikipedia website. There is also an in-browser editor that removes a lot of the headache often associated with any kind of video editing. With the new Wikipedia system, 'people will be able to easily inject media into pages, in a way that wasn't possible before,' says Michael Dale, a software engineer from Kaltura, the company assisting with development of the tools."
No Male (Score:4, Funny)
"Clicking it will bring up an interface allowing her to search for video"
So they only allow females to add videos!?!
There's just one problem... (Score:1, Funny)
Clicking it will bring up an interface allowing her to search for video
...there are no girls on the internet.
Re:No Male (Score:3, Funny)
I can see a problem (Score:3, Funny)
The "Porn" entry bring down the whole Wikipedia site in the first hour.
Big improvement (Score:2, Funny)
Another Tool (Score:5, Funny)
It's always nice to see new tools in the toolbox. I just wonder what kind of edit wars we can look forward to seeing. Could they be like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_anus [wikipedia.org]
Re:No Male (Score:5, Funny)
If only that was a joke... [wikimedia.org]
Re:Weird story gender... (Score:4, Funny)
Strange, apparently a "person" can only be female.
I know, I know, if it said "he" no one would notice, but obviously this person was going out of their way to say "her", so why not just go with "they"? I know it's not grammatically correct (according to an English teacher I had) but at least it works, and it should be correct.
Anyway, it just annoys me when someone goes out of their way to try to end the male gender bias only to throw in female gender bias instead of making it gender neutral. -Taylor
Usually, they're college males hoping to get laid by progressive chicks.
It never works that way, btw.
Re:Another Tool (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, but not everybody is going to actually look at that link, and it is far too fucking priceless to be just referenced. So let's post the juicy parts:
Re:No Male (Score:3, Funny)
If only that was a joke... [wikimedia.org]
Why does the "No Penis" template page contain an image of a penis?
Re:Rather not. (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the'll add a comment section [phdcomics.com] too.
Then people can express how they feel about your NPOV.