Topic on Talk:Reading/Strategy/Kickoff

Many of our readers want rich content and want to be able to easily access our current content in different ways. For example this study found that 82% of people in Kenya want spoken content http://translatorswithoutborders.org/sites/all/themes/twb/pdfs/TWB%20Impact%20Study%20Infograph.pdf

We need to partner with other organizations to increase the number of videos we have. There are a lot of great CC BY SA NC / ND videos out their. The organizations that produce them are happy for us to use them as we are NC. Is there a need for an exception for this content? Yes I know this is a bit of a push. But we allow fully copyright images under specific rules right now.

There' have been some experiments in the past with automated text to speech engines at hackathon events. The identified problems back then were mostly:

• Cost (commercial, or self hosting were both expensive)
• English only
• What is the workflow. How do people find it and how do they use it.
• We need a Free/Open audio format and player.

As for video... We need to be able to sustain video first. That part of our technology stack is nightmare'ish..

rich content including video, for just about every highly viewed article. (channeling Andrew Lih) they are working around at Schnittserver at Internet Archive for raw footage, and then uploading finished to commons; VIDEO PRODUCTION TOOLS AND COMMUNITY IN THE WIKIVERSE

this could be supported, and championed

Rich content is harder to develop than plain text. Of course it's richer for readers, but it's costlier for us.

Video/audio are also much harder problems for collaborative editing and ease of updates. For some pages/topics this may not be a problem (core STEM topics come to mind) but for anything that is in flux (living biography, current or near term events) this would be a major challenge.

it is a major challenge, and ugly process, and bandwidth hog, but the future. it will require much training of video makers in editing and production there is no technical reason we cannot have a video of every blp speaking, (upping the audio recording) a link to youtube is not good enough