{"id":4346,"date":"2012-11-11T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2012-11-11T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:38:41","slug":"wikipedia-now-allows-video-content-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wikipedia-now-allows-video-content-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia now allows Video content too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em>, the world&#8217;s largest online\u00a0encyclopedia has launched a new feature which allows the registered users to<strong> post videos<\/strong>. The news was published in the Wikipedia\u2019s\u00a0press service.\u00a0Articles published in Wikipedia were largely text-based until now. After a long beta period of 5-years Wikipedia finally moves into the video era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessfully translating its radically collaborative nature to multimedia content will be critical to Wikipedia\u2019s transition into the age of video,\u201d said the Wikimedia Foundation<\/p>\n<p>The video upload feature was originally launched in 2008 with the cooperation between Google search engine and Kaltura an open-source video start-up. But the project was delayed due to various technical difficulties. The video offering in the site is carried out using <strong>Kaltura\u2019s HTML5 video player<\/strong> which allows the user to add video content to any Wikipedia article. The new HTML5 video player is a result of a combined effort between Google, Wikipedia and Kaltura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new video player has been enabled on Wikipedia and its sister sites, and it comes with the promise of bringing free educational videos to more people, on more devices, in more languages,&#8221; Wikimedia Foundation said .<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia which has more than 25 million unique visitors to its English section alone, but currently it has only about 15,000 videos. The videos can be added using the new video player based on HTML5 as a part of testing or using the older Ogg Theora player that has been in use since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>After 244 years in print, the Britannica Encyclopaedia published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc, was killed by Wikipedia earlier this year. Can Wikipedia become the number one portal for educational video content too? It\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia, the world&#8217;s largest online\u00a0encyclopedia has launched a new feature which allows the registered users to post videos. The news was published in the Wikipedia\u2019s\u00a0press service.\u00a0Articles published in Wikipedia were largely text-based until now. After a long beta period of 5-years Wikipedia finally moves into the video era. \u201cSuccessfully translating its radically collaborative nature to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[448],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}