[HN Gopher] WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
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WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
Author : netule
Score : 72 points
Date : 2025-12-05 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (commons.wikimedia.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (commons.wikimedia.org)
| starkparker wrote:
| The project is neat, but HN might be more interested in the
| experimental front end for it at
| https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/, which is buried somewhat as a
| link on the page.
| wk_end wrote:
| That frontend seems to have things that aren't hosted on
| Wikimedia Commons, whereas I think OP's link is Wikimedia-
| exclusive and more reliable.
|
| For example, Network (1976) - one of my favourite films - isn't
| listed on the Wikimedia page, but it's listed on the WikiFlix
| frontend. I was a little surprised to see that, since AFAIK
| it's still under copyright. Clicking through, it's trying to
| embed a copy from the Internet Archive, from which it was taken
| down because, yes, it's still under copyright.
| observationist wrote:
| It's no longer accessible. It might be a regional thing, if
| you can still see it?
| starkparker wrote:
| > The WikiFlix tool is hosted on Toolforge in the US.
| Toolforge is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. All
| WikiFlix content is generated from Wikidata and maintained by
| that community.
|
| https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:WikiFlix
|
| Network's WikiData entry is
| https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572165, which includes the
| Archive link and lacks a copyright status. This is also
| linked to from the barcode icon at the top of the movie's
| WikiFlix page: https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/entry/572165
|
| Took about 2 minutes with no prior experience to remove the
| dead IA link and add the copyright status attribute to the
| WikiData item.
| chagaif wrote:
| Why not use peertube software?
| VikingCoder wrote:
| I have an absolutely bizarre desire to download all of these, and
| then rip them apart, scene by scene, and then estimate pose,
| facial pose, gender, etc. Do facial recognition, so I know where
| the same actor is in all of the scenes...
|
| And then to take a movie like The Matrix, or Star Wars, and then
| recreate it, shot for shot, as closely as I can, using clips from
| Public Domain movies.
|
| Especially if I can pick, like, "this actor in this public domain
| movie, or movies, would be a good Neo, or Luke." And it turns out
| that he's in enough shots, and poses, that I'm able to remake all
| of that character's scenes, from Public Domain footage of this
| other actor.
| kwanbix wrote:
| Please do, and let us know when it is finished so that we can
| all watch it.
| LelouBil wrote:
| That would be really interesting if you have enough ML
| knowledge to do it !
| VikingCoder wrote:
| Well, with things like this, I feel like someone could get
| interesting results pretty quickly:
|
| https://lintangwisesa.github.io/MediaPipe-in-
| JavaScript/inde...
|
| https://github.com/cosyneco/MediaPipe.NET
|
| https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/guide
|
| I'd think you'd start with a tool to automatically cut video
| into scenes, and kind of go from there...
| razkarcy wrote:
| This feels just a few steps removed from bringing the
| technology from the 1990 film "Total Recall" to life. Clients
| are able to purchase completely custom memories, choosing the
| exact characters that will appear in their "vacations", their
| ages, and appearances.
| VikingCoder wrote:
| I'm also kind of reminded of A Scanner Darkly. That would be
| another interesting movie to reconstruct this way.
|
| I'm also reminded of those posters in the mall, where from a
| distance, it's an actor's face. But when you walk up close,
| it's actually made of hundreds of stills from their films.
| addled wrote:
| I feel like you should check out https://youtu.be/5GFW-
| eEWXlc?si=w3KTUkIprSeBYH3f
|
| Enjoy.
| VikingCoder wrote:
| Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaGAVp3Sgt8
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Is this helpful?
|
| _Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every
| detail_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094606 -
| December 2025
| Dwedit wrote:
| It's missing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
| glitchc wrote:
| It's there:
| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Santa_Claus_Conq...
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