Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-22/News and notes

News and notes

Wikizine, video editing, milestones

Wikizine

A large new edition of Wikizine is out: "Year: 2009 Week: 29 Number: 108". It includes news about the LiquidThreads extension, various Wikimedia Foundation announcements and goings-on, privacy issues with traffic analysis services that were installed on two Wikipedias, a Wikimedia Canada meeting and Wiki-Conference New York, and more.

Video editing coming soon?

According to an article in MIT's Technology Review, "Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade", Wikipedia will see dramatic improvements in video capabilities rolled out within the next few months.

On the Commons-l mailing list, Casey Brown described the article:

They just put together all of the mini-updates about Michael Dale/Kaltura's
work that we've been getting for months now.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Collaborative_Video

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/07/23/kaltura-sponsors-michael-dale-open-source-video-developer/

http://metavid.org/blog/2009/03/27/add-media-wizard-and-firefogg-on-test-wikimediaorg/

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/author/mdale/

public svn

lots of wikitech-l/commons-l/foundation-l notes

The article just put all the snippets together into a solid update for people outside our community. :-)