Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/Q and A, Video Blogs, Etc. Project

Intention

What exactly do you want to do here? Do you want to transcribe Q&A's, or just store them on the BSWiki server? --Catrope 07:00, 16 February 2007 (CST)

It sounds like he's proposing both (Shane has long been an advocate of starting to host some of the Scifi content). I'd support the transcribing the Q&A's, blogs, etc. as there appears to be a healthy amount of information in those. I don't think I'd get to it myself personally, as the podcasts are currently consuming most of my wiki-cycles. However I would oppose hosting the content itself. As long as Scifi is willing to host it we should let them carry that burden. If they stop (and people have them backed up), we might then discuss hosting them for posterity, but in the meantime let them carry the load. They might not take kindly to us swiping their content (and potentially advertising revenue, etc.) --Steelviper 07:26, 16 February 2007 (CST)

I concur that hosting video content would really overtax us, but I also believe it will not be a fair-use situation and become a copyright problem. Transcription of these items would be a nice season hiatus project, I think, with screen caps if possible. --Spencerian 07:32, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Sounds Good, a lot of the cool stuff can only been seen from the US so transcripts would be sweet. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 08:26, 16 February 2007 (CST)

I like this idea too, transcribing those would be a great project to do, especially since we'll have a long hiatus. --Talos 09:27, 16 February 2007 (CST)

No problem with transcriptions. Hosting the videos, however, could be identified as copyright infringement. So I definitely Support the transcription of this content with appropriate screenshots, but we can't host the actual content itself. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 09:58, 16 February 2007 (CST)