Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-07-12/Technology report

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The multi-cam work was just great for the Q and A sessions—it gave us a sense of being part of the audience. I'm interested to know who owns the live stream / vid. Is it freely available for use on en.WP? Tony (talk) 14:11, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As written in the article the recording and streaming were done by iStream, which seems to be a Polish company based in Poznań: http://www.istream.pl/ According to Manuel Schneider the recordings will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Theora format [1], but I presume it may take some time for the company to do the Theora-encoding of the many hours of recording. — fnielsen (talk) 10:48, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
About the BnF partnership, I am afraid this report is largely inaccurate (probably because we did not communicate much on it, true :-). The early preparations of the technical work were done in late March. It really started in early May, just after the announcement. This work was done by a core team of three volunteers of Wikimédia France, with much help and input from fellow members and experimented contributors to Commons and Wikisource who brought their expertise of the projects.
The BnF did not provide any DjVu. The technical challenge was precisely to build the best DjVus possible from what they gave us, while keeping as much metadata as possible and making the future work of the Wikisource folks as easy as possible.
Finally, we requested a server-side upload on July 2, which was performed by Tim Starling on July 10. The associated Wikisource pages were initialised by bot later this day, live from Wikimania in Gdańsk.
Thanks for reporting on this project! Jean-Fred (talk) 20:31, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also, the upload is complete for the moment: all the books provided by the BnF as part of this partnership are now on Commons. Jean-Fred (talk) 20:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for filling us in! Be sure to keep us updated :) - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 21:24, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :-). For reference, we have set up a page at Commons: Commons:Bibliothèque nationale de France. More should come in the future (maybe on the Outreach wiki). Jean-Fred (talk) 23:37, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]