Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Makes Video/Clip

Clip and Find More Video for Wikipedia

If you are unable to film video of your own, you can still help with this project. Check out the links below to find video or use video that you already own and add it to a wikipedia article.

DOs & DON'Ts

DO

• DO use video available in the public domain or licensed under a free license
• DO shorten the video to 1 minute or less

DON'T

• DON'T use video of which you do not own or have legal rights to publish
• DON'T use special effects (e.g. blur or fade black) unnecessarily

See commons:User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot

Finding videos online

See also: Commons:Free media resources/Video

Several media resources contain video that is public domain or licensed under a free license. These can be converted and uploaded to Commons.

• Archive.org open-source movies - Movies under several licenses. Some licenses are accepted in the commons.
• Archive.org movies - Presentation of several collections of videos, some with free licenses.
• Flickr Creative Commons videos - all assortments of videos licensed under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA
  • Flickr HD videos - high definition videos that are freely licensed
  • Flickr The Commons (public domain) - a variety of videos licensed freely by many institutions, including the Library of Congress
  • Flickr copyrighted videos - these are mostly copyrighted but the uploader might relicense if asked. Use the ticket request system, OTRS.
• YouTube - Creative Commons - Search videos licensed as Creative Commons on YouTube by visiting the link and replacing "SearchText" with a different search term. See also Commons:YouTube files.

TO-DO list

Videos from Internet Archive

• Swimming - https://archive.org/details/FreestyleSwimming (unknown provenance and copyright)