VideoWiki is a free multi-media encyclopedia that visualizes the sum of all human knowledge. Anyone, including you, can edit an article without even logging in. This Beta version was launched without any front end work done on it and without the Auto-Update feature.
@kleinkleinklein : YouTube is my go too visual source too. However, YouTube ends up being a subjective opinion about everything while VideoWiki, being based on Wikipedia becomes an objective, neutral and verifiable source of visual information :)
It's 2017! We can stream 4k videos on YouTube, yet, we don't have a basic video version of Wikipedia. Why is that? Glad you asked :)
Building a multi-media encyclopedia was considered IMPOSSIBLE because videos once uploaded on the internet cannot be edited again, and Wikipedia relies on constantly being edited and updated.
We just proved that building a collaborative multi-media encyclopedia is not only technically possible but fun too. Anyone, including you, can edit any article right now, without even having to log in. You can edit any article easily, by using our Drag and Drop UI.
In the future, where more of our interaction with technology is through IMAGES, VIDEOS, and soon Augmented Realty & Virtual Reality, a multi-media encyclopedia becomes a natural evolution of a text-based encyclopedia.
So play around the Beta, let me know your thoughts DOWN BELOW and if there is any particular feature you would like to see in the official release of VideoWiki. (Playback rate to control the speed of narration is the most requested feature yet)
P.S – VideoWiki Beta is currently supported on Chrome desktop browser only.
@askdaylen : Thanks for the link Daylen. It is really helpful. VideoWiki has now moved to www.videowiki.org - As you can see, VideoWiki allows you to collaboratively edit an article which is not possible in Osmosis. It also has no branding as we have open sourced it. We are working on features that will check all the boxes of building a Video Version of Wikipedia.
@pratik_shetty I just mean that if you truly want to release as many people as possible, it might be smarter to build this on top of the MediaWiki platform (which is what Wikipedia uses), so it can be directly integrated into Wikipedia.
@askdaylen : You are absolutely right about that. But I wasn't familiar with Mediawiki internals. So I had created VideoWiki from scratch. Anywhich ways, I demo-ed VideoWiki at Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town and it got a surreal positive response. An official discussion to make it a sister project has also been started at Meta.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/...
Please do show your "Interest" in the Meta Page if you thing visualizing Wikipedia is something you would like to see in the future. I would also love your feedback if you feel there needs to be any particular feature which is currently missing in VideoWiki :)
Thanks for taking your time :D
@pratik_shetty That's awesome! I have added by support on the project page. As far as feature suggestions, the list on Meta-Wiki would be a good start. I'm also not sure what the interface is like on mobile, but many Wikimedians edit using their mobile device (especially in developing countries).
@askdaylen : Thanks a lot for the support Daylen :D You are absolutely right about Mobile editing. The 3 primary goals for VideoWiki currently is to:
1. Work on the features mentioned in Meta.
2. Make VideoWiki available in other languages
3. Build a mobile-compatible version of VideoWiki
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