Abhinav,
Thanks for the comment. Your concern is duly noted, but as the video
editing has already been done by the production team, we cannot do any
changes now, even if we like to.
Whatsapp fake news is a real thing, and this video is not the first time,
where it has been mentioned. It has been featured in many news channels and
print media. Few examples are -
*
from TIME
Even Whatsapp also admits that this is a problem and they have tried to
counter it in different ways. For eg. -
*
Thanks,
Bodhisattwa
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 09:08, Abhinav srivastava <abhinav619(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Bodhisattwa,
I saw these videos last evening, they are actually very nicely done.
I have a very minor concern which I have also posted under the comments
section and reached out to you last evening.
In ‘What just happened’ video, can we drop ’whatsapp’ placed just ahead of
fake news. If possible dubb it to online fake news or simply mute it.
I am not a lawyer and not sure on legal issues. Someone can better reflect
on the matter of taking names of Internet organisation outside our
movement.
When Hindi promotional video was made by WMF, The Hindi community members
on the table made a common consensus on not taking names.
Again, it could be a very minor issue and may not hold much relevance.
Abhinav
On Monday, October 1, 2018, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
We are happy to announce that, three Bengali Wikisource Awareness
Campaign videos have been released in Youtube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_fhMDPgSjGGaGGvY4A38Q> of West
Bengal Wikimedians user Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians>. This campaign
was first such initiative to promote Wikisource among new readers.
The project was first placed in IdeaLab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Awareness_video_for_Bengali_Wikisource>
as part of Inspire Campaign and was later funded by Wikimedia Foundation rapid
grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Awareness_video_for_Bengali_Wikisource>.
The details can be found here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikisource_Awareness_Campaign>.
The youtube links of the short videos can be found here -
* লে হালুয়া <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> (What just
happened)
* মায়ের নজর <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> (Watchful
eyes)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায়
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> (World at your doorstep)
The videos were also uploaded to Commons. The links are as follows-
* লে হালুয়া
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:লে_হালুয়া_(উইকিসংকলন_সচেতনতা_ভিডিও).webm>
(What just happened)
* মায়ের নজর <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:মায়ের_নজর.webm>
(Watchful eyes)
* দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায়
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:দুনিয়া_যখন_দোরগোড়ায়.webm>
(World at your doorstep)
The video production could have not been possible without -
* Director - Ishan Sharma (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute,
Kolkata)
* Cinematographer - Sukhansaar Singh (do)
* Executive Producer - Aryaman Nath (do)
* Sound Director - Sukrit Sen (do)
* Focus Puller - Theodros Tadesse (Ethiopia)
* Assistant Director - Sneha Das (do)
* Editor - Himangshu Kamble (Mumbai)
* Colorist - Pankaj Nelson (Mumbai)
* Plot proposer - Deepanjan Ghosh (Radio Mirchi Kolkata)
* Cast - Sujan Ghosh, Suavo Mukherjee, Ritam Sarkar, Raja Chakravorty,
Shrabanti Bhattacharya and Avinash
- * Bengali Wikisource team - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Hrishikes Sen,
Mahir Morshed, Jayanta Nath
- * WMF liaison - Satdeep Gill (Thanks a lot, buddy!)
It was a completely new experience for us, and we have learnt a lot from
the entire project. We will try to promote the videos for next 1 month and
submit our grant report within the deadline of 30 October, 2018.
Please do watch the videos and feel free to create subtitles in your
languages. The English and Bengali subtitles are already there in Youtube
and Commons.
Enjoy!!
Thanks,
Bodhisattwa
Bengali Wikisource community
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
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