Upload Video to Wikimedia

Target Audience

Someone who wants to upload video to wikimedia. Apple devices typically record in Ogg format. This will upload to wikimedia without conversion. This tutorial is for someone who needs to convert to Ogg (and doesn't want to use Youtube).

Starting Point

Have a video in a format that you need to convert to Ogg.

Replication Goal

Turn video into Ogg file that can be uploaded to wikimedia.

Procedure Install Mirco, Use to Convert and Upload

Miro installation instructions
convert to oggtheora format
upload file to wikimedia

Download MiroVideoConverter, install, don't install additional free software it comes with
Choose video to convert, oggtheora format to convert to
Look for video in "My Files","MiroVideoConvertor" folder,has the extension "ovg" .. and upload at wikimedia commons

Recommendation: Use youtube

The only benefit of a wikiversity video upload, is the automatic creation of a thumbnail. The drawbacks are:

Miro installation instructions

Reason: Play back randomly stops, don't know how long video is
Reason: Youtube handles conversion for you
Reason: Clicking on the side thumbnail, plays video in the thumbnail .. plays distorted and can not see anything
Reason: Have to click on the overlapping squares to play in larger window
Full screen does not always work in all browsers
Quality is reduced during the upload process, compare with these youtube uploads (choose high resolution by clicking on the gear):

installing Miro

converting mp4 to ogg

uploading ogg to wikimedia