Wikipedia will introduce video clips for its users
Wikipedia, the online user-edited encyclopedia will introduce video clips for its users to run by the end of the summer.
Still, Wikipedia expects to launch the project with hundreds of thousands of archival videos from three partners it has lined up: the Internet Archive, which houses roughly 200,000 videos, including documentaries, items such as 1950s educational clips; the Wikimedia Commons, which holds 4 million media files, many of them video; and Metavid, which archives Congressional speeches and hearings, reuters.com reports.
Wikipedia is a free, web-based multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.
Still, Wikipedia expects to launch the project with hundreds of thousands of archival videos from three partners it has lined up: the Internet Archive, which houses roughly 200,000 videos, including documentaries, items such as 1950s educational clips; the Wikimedia Commons, which holds 4 million media files, many of them video; and Metavid, which archives Congressional speeches and hearings, reuters.com reports.
Wikipedia is a free, web-based multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.
