Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain videos

Surprising fact

Janko Roettgers's avatarGigaom

How can you make Wikipedia more attractive to the YouTube generation? Wikipedians have struggled with this question for years, but efforts to add more moving images to the popular only encyclopedia have yet to take off: Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain a video, according to Jesse de Vos from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, which itself is a major contributor of videos to Wikipedia. “With video on Wikimedia we are still just scratching the surface,” de Vos wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has uploaded a total of 3,800 videos to Wikimedia Commons, the media repository for Wikipedia. This accounts for close to eight percent of all Wikimedia videos, according to de Vos, which makes the institute the largest single contributor of videos to Wikimedia. Video only accounts for 0.22 percent of all files on Wikimedia, and…

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AUTUMN

Thank for sharing this piece

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Ageing  leaves fall to the ground

Ushering  in the end of summer days

Tumbling twirling , furling all around

Under  heaving boughs of harvest golden light plays

Myriads of scurrying animals gather winter stores

Night  draws in and  morning  is dressed in foggy  silver hoar.

  

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As  smoke from a thousand bonfires rise

Unwinding  dads rid the evening train homewards

Turning their eyes to the dying light thought of stake pie and fries

Uniformed school children collect harvest  rewards

Muffled sounds of muted  car tyres

Nipping cold , pinched cheeks as summer expires.

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T-Mobile picks Ericsson to build its new tricked-out LTE network

Kevin Fitchard's avatarGigaom

Considering Ericsson built a good deal of T-Mobile’s first LTE network, it should come as no surprise that T-Mobile US has tapped the Swedish network infrastructure giant to complete the next phase of its ongoing 4G rollout. Ericsson announced on Tuesday that is building new LTE systems in the 700 MHz and 1900 MHz PCS bands for T-Mobile as well as providing the baseband processing glue that will meld those different networks together.

Specifically, [company]Ericsson[/company] has started building new 4G base station gear in the 700 MHz frequencies that T-Mobile bought from Verizon last year to help fill in its 4G footprint outside of metro areas. And it’s cannibalizing old 2G and 3G airwaves in the PCS band for more 4G capacity. T-Mobile’s main LTE network sits in the Advanced Wireless Service (AWS band) at 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz.

Instead of operating all three as different networks, though, Ericsson…

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Let Your Story Become #MyStory

Maureen's avatar

When I began sherights, I intentioned it to serve as a platform for raising women’s voices and experiences. I’m honored that over the last few years, several people have joined me in sharing their personal experiences, from abortion to rape, sexual harassment, and more.

Call me greedy, but I want even more.

It is through sharing our stories as women and feminist allies (ahem, #FeministMen), that we help dismantle stigma and patriarchal norms, and gain support, tolerance and understanding of ourselves and others.

Are you an abortion clinic escort? Activist? A female working in STEM or other male-dominated field? Sexual assault survivor? Have you had an abortion? Do you identify as LGBT? A woman of color?  We want to hear — and share — your story, too. (And by no means is this list of identities and experiences exhaustive).

If you are interested in joining our #MyStory series, please email editor@sherights.com.

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