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[Jonathan Thomas <Jonathan.Oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

A "Wikipedia" export preset has been created under the "Web" category.
It defaults to 320x240, OGG Vorbis / Theora.  Wikipedia does not support
WebM yet (as far as I can tell), so no reason to add that option quite
yet.  WebM can still be found under the "All Formats" category, just
incase someone needs it.

** Changed in: openshot
   Importance: Wishlist => Low

** Changed in: openshot
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670414

Title:
  Missing profile for easy export to wikipedia

Status in OpenShot Video Editor:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  
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This bug report follow answer to question :
Is there a profile for easy export to wikipedia ?
https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/132202
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OpenShot do not currently have an export profile to easily export to Wikipedia.
It would be interesting to have such feature in OpenShot for helping end-user to contribute to the Wikipedia open-video project.

In the following recent document:
"Video for Wikipedia: Guide to Best Practices"
http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/10/video-for-wikipedia-guide-to-best-practices/?l=en

It can be read...
"In 2010, as as part of a campaign to encourage individual video contribu- tions to the Wikimedia Commons, the Participa- tory Culture Foundation developed and released the Miro Converter, a free, automatic converter which creates Wikimedia-ready files from almost any existing asset with no prior technical knowl- edge necessary. The Wikipedia community has embraced the Converter, and any user who wants to upload open-video formats can do so, again with the push of a button."

Here are some hints to help OpenShot team implement such feature in the future, hopefully sooner than later... :)

How to publish video on Wikipedia ?
http://videoonwikipedia.org/howto.html

Proposed guidelines for video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Videos
- limited to 100 MB (no longer than 3-5 minutes)
- dimensions of 320x240
- convert the file to the Ogg Theora (.ogv)... webM shall also be supported sometime in the future by wikipedia...
- recommend the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License
- upload at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload ?

Happy coding !