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Wikipedia this week announced its plans to support the Theora video codec on its Wikipedia website. Theora is an open source video codec which is to be ...

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Krimpet
This isn't the first of this "OMG, Wikipedia to support Theora!!!" stories to be scraped here over the past few days. Considering that WP's supported Theora video for well over three years now, one wonders what the Web 2.0® press has been drinking.
Cedric
QUOTE(Krimpet @ Fri 19th March 2010, 7:03pm) *

This isn't the first of this "OMG, Wikipedia to support Theora!!!" stories to be scraped here over the past few days. Considering that WP's supported Theora video for well over three years now, one wonders what the Web 2.0® press has been drinking.

Indeed. The real question is why they will not support any other format. That old "security reasons" dodge is wearing a bit thin. dry.gif
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