User:Sj/EdX/Uploading video

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Notes on how to upload a video and use it in an article.

For more about video on the wikis, see Commons:Video.

Option 1: upload directly from the article editing interface

While editing an article using the visual editor, you can choose Insert > Media and directly upload a .webm file from your computer. This works best for files that don't need detailed descriptions and source data, and are clearly your own work. If you are a new user, uploading a file that already exists online as part of a MOOC, you should probably not use this option. It's clearer to first upload to Commons, specify the file's provenance, and then insert it.

Option 2: upload video to Commons

You'll need to make a Commons account for this. Video must be in .webm format.

1. If they are already webm, use the upload wizard. If not, use video2commons to convert.

For a large number of videos already available as webm files: you can use a tool like pattypan and a spreadsheet.

2a. On the second screen, fill in details:

Filename=	[A descriptive title]		source=	[link to course page]
description=	[caption]		author=	[author]
date=	[creation date]		permission=	CC-BY-SA

2b. Below =={{int:license-header}}==:

Replace the next two lines with {{cc-by-sa-4.0}}

Add at the bottom [[Category:EdX]]

Adding video to relevant wiki pages

Once you have video uploaded to the wiki, you can reuse it in other pages.

Commons: Wikimedia Commons itself is a suitable place for all freely licensed educational media, even if not used in an article. You can upload a whole course-worth of images, docs, and files; add categories and descriptions and links to the source course. You can create summary pages for a topic such as Glass, and can browse by category. Simply having the files on Commons makes them easy for other wiki editors and web-surfers to find, linked to the original source.

Commons has tools for translating subtitles.

Wikipedia: Choose a specific article related to the course topic (Ex: Nonlinear element).

1. Edit, use the visual editor (switch editors w/ the menu in the upper-right)

2. Insert > Media, then in the Search bar enter part of the descriptive title of the course (e.g., 6.002x). You should see the video you uploaded, click to select it.

3. Use this image, enter a caption, and Insert.

4. Drag the video around the page to where it fits best, and Save changes.

5. Add a short edit summary (e.g. "adding video from a class on nonlinear elements"), and Save changes again.

6. You can set the thumbnail time, and start+end by editing the parameters of the video (click on it in visual editor and look at more fields; or open the source editor and add them there)

A source example: [[File:Motivation_(6.002x-2).webm|thumbtime=0:10|start=0:05|end=0:10|100px]] gives this clip:

Wikisource: Published articles, coursepacks, or texts with canonical versions + ISBNs/DOIs belong here.

Wikisource has tools for translating articles and books.

Wikiversity: A full course overview can go here. This is mainly used when teachers and students want to collaborate on creating course packs or lecture notes, or to collaborate on comments or assignments.

WikiEd + Jaimee A. may be interested in this use case.