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[Jonathan Thomas <Jonathan.Oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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 !