There’s a buzz about the campaign to get more videos on Wikipedia. For example, Mashable’s article talks about the new initiative of the Open Video Alliance. It also mentions Miro for supplying the technology for the open video format – Theora.

There’s another factor behind the Let’s Get Video on Wikipedia site: Kaltura. The Israeli company is already working with Wikimedia, the provider of the open-source Wiki platform, supplying the HTML5 Media Library.

Videos seen on Wikipedia are distributed by the Creative Commons BY-SA (or equivalent licence, and can be downloaded. The content is educational.

Another Israeli company, Metacafe, uses Wikimedia’s engine for allowing its users to edit the metadata that accompanies the movies.

Read more about Kaltura and Metacafe in The Wadi index.

Disclosure: I’ve worked for Metacafe in the past.