Rich media on wikis

This session was about editing rich media (audio, video, structured data) in a wiki way.

+ wikitravel guy (Evangelo Prodromou) wanted editing of SVG images + interested in open content + mapufacture + inputdraw: free for noncommercial use + hand-illustrated maps may be useful, not to geo scale + Dan: usefulness of having a very particular app (wikitravel)

+ wikitravel use case: collaboratively edited video of a "tour of Montreal"

• jumpcut (no collaboration)
• kino: video editing
• http://epresence.tv - open source webcasting conference publishing
• SMIL: XML answer to realplayer. playlist control editor.
• IDEA: Just edit the playlists
• Only valuable for large projects? Documentaries?
• Many more video producers than talented video editors
• me: String together YouTube videos?
• http://globalvision.wikia.com/wiki/Video_editing
• http://youtube.com/signup?next=/ytremixer
• http://dotsub.com/ - open subtitling of movies
• Some movies in the 40s and 50s dropped into public domain
• There's a guy who dubs old Russian movies in the public domain into Esperanto and sells them to the Esperanto community.
• HTML wikis (WYSIWYG wikis)

+ tiki diff (post-parsed) works great except for tables, but this was hand-coded + not around yet because "we can get away with it" (i.e. community doesn't demand it)

+ Wiki syntax focuses you on content

• "Wikis are more than just a bunch of Google docs with links between them"
• If we don't do WYSIWYG, there will be an end-around run and our culture will be lost
• If we don't do video editing, there will be an end-around run ...
• Structured data

+ Wikicalc - Dan Brinklin + Semantic mediawiki - Semantic markup + Freebase

• http://dbpedia.org/
• WikiTravel: wikimedia plugin, markup lat,long of a restaurant
• tiki wiki - can display structured data, but can't extract it
• what about changing the structure?
• http://vinismo.com/en/Wine_Guide

+ Evan: fields won't change much over time

• Andreas Gohr: database of available plugins

+ had closed list of fields