Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia,has launched a new project enabling registered users to post videos, accordingto the portal's press service.
"A new video player has been enabled on Wikipedia andits sister sites, and it comes with the promise of bringing free educationalvideos to more people, on more devices, in more languages," WikimediaFoundation said Friday.
Wikipedia articles have remained largely text-based untilnow.
The video upload project, carried out in cooperation withopen-source video start-up Kaltura and the Google search engine, was launchedin 2008. But it was delayed due to numerous technical problems.
The new HTML5 player is a result of a combined effortbetween Wikipedia, Google and Kaltura.
Wikipedia, which sees 25 million unique daily visitors toits English section alone, currently hosts only about 15,000 videos.
The videos were added either via the older Ogg Theora playerthat has been in use since 2007 or as part of testing the new player, based onHTML5