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The aspect ratio of images that are used in a VideoWiki depend on the width of the viewport, and can be severely distorted.

Images within a video should maintain their original aspect ratio.

@videowikips I notice on the vconverter-instance there is an audio-processing repo that belongs to you, but I don't find it here. Can you tell me where it is?

I came across this project and was hoping to make some minor contributions to it but according to the documentation, I am supposed to set up developer accounts on various sites such as slack, aws, mailgun etc.

Can we have a common developer account at least for the staging environment?

Moreover, I tried running npm run dev and got the following error. I haven't setup any of the 3rd party accounts so this error could possibly be because of that.

videowiki.wmflabs.org tries to load third-party content from https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/vwpmedia/statics/coffee.png

This is a privacy violation (see also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129936 ) and loading such unneeded third-party content should be avoided.

Are baked-in references to images necessary? Since as per COM:WATERMARK and COM:ENFORCE, visible watermarks are discouraged, and attribution/licensing information is instead supposed to be contained within metadata/file description page.

From what I can tell, VideoWiki automatically takes a series of media files from a wiki page (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Dengue_fever_overview ), and turns that series of images/videos into a montage with transition effects and some Ken Burns-style panning around static images.

This mostly works fine for Wikipedia articles where the images are illustrations that accompany the text, but are more serving the purpose of general illustration (which is often the case). But in that Dengue fever example, each image is carefully chosen to correspond to each section of text, often illustrating exactly what the text is describing. In those cases, it would be better to just show the single current image so that the viewer can focus on it.

I'm trying VideoWiki for the first time, and it's very cool! One thing I'm interested in with such videos is to create continually-updated tutorial videos (eg, for how to do specific things on Wikipedia, as part of the training for Wiki Education program participants). Our training modules currently use embedded videos from YouTube, like here: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/sandboxes-talk-watchlists/video-watchlists-v2

A really useful feature would be to provide code snippets for the same type of embedding for VideoWiki vids.