A WikiTube in the making
June 23, 2009 — Abigail Hamilton
Wikipedia will be adding a cool video encyclopedia, with editing tools, to its properties in the next months. They’re hoping their large user base and clout will bring a lot more video into the public domain. Meanwhile, however, Erik Moeller (deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation) laments:
It is sad and unfortunate that the public broadcasters are not the ones leading this movement,” he says, adding, “The mission should be to do whatever they can do to maximize distribution, and I’m not seeing that right now.
Details at p2pnet.net and WebWireTV

