Wikipedia has dominated Britannica and Encarta in recent years, but the two commercial encyclopedias still possess more high quality multimedia in video, interactive timelines and other audio/visual content. The crowd has excelled at building Wikipedia's text articles and adding photos in Wikimedia Commons. However, video would greatly enhance the usefulness of a whole range of articles but remains a weakness.
Wikipedia's video efforts have not kept pace with other advancements, and have not targeted strategic subject-areas.
The technical hurdle of video is actually a minor issue. Visual literacy and production quality are much more elusive.
Q: How do we increase community collaboration in the quantity and quality of video in Wikipedia articles?
Build off successful Wiki Loves Monuments, perhaps Wikipedia Makes Video events?
Encourage "moving picture" videos. Are there a class of 5-15 second videos (essentially living photographs, such as those in Harry Potter) that would not require any editing, but would make certain articles come alive? The giraffe eating seemed like a good example of this.
External
Mozilla video effort collaboration
Tap into schools of journalism, communications or film for student contributions
Partner with GLAM for existing footage or shooting new content
University of Southern California journalism students will be working with User:Fuzheado on this for a semester-long project (Jan-May 2013)
