The to go place for all students in the world, Wikipedia hardly needs introduction. What does need an intro is the website's spanking new open-source collaborative video editing and uploading service.
"A 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," announced Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia started the project, in collusion with Google and an open-source video start-up called Kaltura, in the year 2008. But, owing to technical glitches and the lack of HTML5 being widely supported, the release was delayed until now.
Incidentally, Wikipedia already has a video player that only supports the ogg Theora format, and uploading videos onto the site, up until now, has been a tedious procedure.
Things are all set for a change now, and millions of people who were bothered by the lenghty text in wikipedia articles will now have an easier A/V way of gaining all that information.