zeileis, 1 month ago

@leonido @uniinnsbruck @osconjunction Great opening lecture, I very much enjoyed it!

Regarding YouTube & video licenses & reuse in Wikipedia: Is it good enough to flag your YouTube videos as CC-BY on YouTube (instead of the default YouTube license)?

That's what I do with my own YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/@azeileis) but I wondered whether I should do something else instead of or in addition to that?

leonido, 1 month ago

@zeileis

yes in principle, but usually such content won't end up in Wikipedia:

• YouTube does not allow downloads (yes, there are workarounds...)
• the video has to be converted into an open file standard (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Converting_video)
• Wikipedian's usually don't search YouTube for content to download and convert

>> if you really want your videos to have chance of being used in Wikipedia, you probably would have to convert and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.
@uniinnsbruck

uniinnsbruck, 1 month ago

@leonido @zeileis already happened: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_(Communication)_and_Wikipedia._Potentials_and_Pitfalls.webm

leonido, 1 month ago

I seized the opportunity to reflect on the following questions:

• How 'scientific' is Wikipedia?
• How important is science for Wikipedia?
• How important is Wikipedia for science?
• How important is Wikipedia for our common knowledge?
• What are potentials when science communication meets Wikipedia?
• What are the pitfalls?
• Is it worth it?

Of course, the slide deck features the nowadays obligatory AI slide and an Elon Musk joke.

https://chaos.social/@osconjunction.net@osconjunction.net/112251386471922963

leonido, 1 month ago

PS: in line with the topic, the video recording of my talk is now also available on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_(Communication)_and_Wikipedia._Potentials_and_Pitfalls.webm