The future of Knowledge cannot be confined to text only. We, human beings perceive information visually and the sum of all human knowledge should also have a visual medium. In a future, where more of our interaction with technology is through images, videos and soon augmented reality, VideoWiki will play an important role in viewing Wikipedia.

Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a video version of Wikipedia already? It’s 2018, streaming images and videos isn’t a big deal but Wikipedia is still predominantly a text-based encyclopedia.

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The reason for this is because videos once uploaded on the internet, cannot be edited again and Wikipedia relies on being continuously edited and updated.(Imagine uploading a video on YouTube, can you edit the video once you upload it? No, right?) The second major reason is that video-production is time-consuming and 💰.

VideoWiki cracks these technical challenges and proves that building a collaborative multi-media encyclopedia is possible.

Anyone, including you, can edit (add images / gifs / videos) to any VideoWiki article, even without logging in. VideoWiki shares the same vision as Wikipedia and is looking to be a part of the WMF family.. If you are a visual learner or you believe in visualizing the sum of all human knowledge, do join the VideoWiki community 🙌

If you are a developer and want to contribute to VideoWiki — you can go to https://github.com/videowikips/videowiki/

P.S to all devs - VideoWiki is built on node.js