Personally Wikipedia never impressed me from a visual point of view. Not too many pictures; Video? It is there. But the collaborative aspect was missing and that might be about to change. A few weeks ago it announced a new initiative “Help: Collaborative Video”
By using the tools supplied, it will enable Wiki pages to include collaboratively created video, audio, animation, and slideshows as well as text and images. The experiment is carried out by WikiEducator .
What is collaborative video?
The wiki of Kultura, one of the partners in this project describes it as: "A collaborative video is a video created together by multiple users. Anyone with editing permissions can add photos, videos and sounds, edit them in a full-featured online video editor and then post it as a widget on any wiki page. Adding a collaborative video widget takes less than a minute. Once a video is created, any user can then go in and continue to add material and edit the video".
If you play the video you can immediately imagine how complex, how interesting, how hilarious collaborative video could become. (But still difficult to imagine why collaborative video should be preferred over individual video postings on a wikipage).
Is collaborative video new? It was to me, but a quick search revealed some other initiatives, for example http://wikivideo.blogspot.com.
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