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> and no-one cares that it doesn't have embedded videos of antelopes bounding or the galaxy turning.

I care. I think Wikipedia would be greatly improved with relevant embedded video content. Unfortunately, getting high quality relevant public domain video is virtually impossible. It is nice to think about though.

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Hm. Well, I agree actually, and in fact it does have some media at least associated with articles, via the "wikimedia commons".

I was more trying to illustrate that multimedia alone does not make a high quality resource, as proved the downfall of the "Multimedia CD-ROM" era of content production, which I feel these concept videos are rooted in.

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