WIKIPEDIA WILL INTRODUCE VIDEO CLIPS FOR ITS USERS
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.06.2009 20:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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.