<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Read again...<br>
<br>
Extract "
<pre wrap="">We'll shoot mostly in English, but you'll be encouraged to add responses in native or other languages as well.
Ant
</pre>
On 7/8/10 1:27 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTikcDGyUeftaRGpfIqEqVwUqp5_gFjFtn_XkIWyv@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">hey Jay, <br>
<br>
thanks a lot for the heads up! Just one question: will the
conversations only be in English, or will you also be asking questions
in mother tongue? (or allow people to answer as they like). Combining
the two, asking both to answer in English and mother tongue, would give
some interesting opportunities when you want to roll something out on a
more world wide level - and it would allow people to more freely
express what they feel without having to translate in the mean while
etc - which might limit them. <br>
<br>
best,<br>
<br>
lodewijk<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/8 Jay Walsh <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jwalsh@wikimedia.org">jwalsh@wikimedia.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi
folks,<br>
<br>
For those who might not know me - I manage communications for the
Foundation, here for my third Wikimania!<br>
<br>
Some of you may be aware that the Wikimedia Foundation is undertaking a
small production here at Gdansk this year, largely to coincide with the
presence of so many of our project representatives from around the
world. The intention of this filming is to produce a bank of footage
of our project participants, and more specifically to produce a series
of short videos that will help show the faces and personalities behind
our projects. Much photography and video exists of our community, but
this is the first time we're working to produce something of
significant, studio-style quality that everyone will be able to use.
We'll be asking some basic questions about how the projects work,
particularly Wikipedia, so we can have interesting perspectives and
practical knowledge - first hand from the contributors - to use for a
variety of purposes.<br>
<br>
The final videos will be CCBYSA, of course, and the timing of their
release (late August, early Sept) should help us with some major
upcoming milestones, specifically the 10th anniversary of Wikipedia,
our next major fundraiser, and efforts to both bring in new editors and
to provide a short, simple, and very good video that portrays some of
the people behind our movement. We hope the videos can also be
subtitled and localized by and for chapters and other groups interested
in supporting the Wikimedia projects.<br>
<br>
Over the three days of Wikimania you might be approached by me or one
of a few staff or volunteers to share 10-15 mins of your time to tell
us about yourself and your involvement with the projects on camera.
The questions will be very simple - no special prep needed, just your
honest answers and enthusiasm.<br>
<br>
This is of course 100% voluntary, and because we're filming just
off-site of the main venue (we've set up a small studio at the adjacent
Maritime Museum), it will only involve those who wish to be filmed.
This isn't a video project focussed on Wikimania specifically, rather
on the people of the projects, and why and how you participate. A few
other visiting video/media crews may be shooting Wikimania itself
(besides the many videographers amongst the contributors), but this
project is completely studio-based. Obviously if you are not
comfortable having your likeness, username/name, and nationality used
in a public work like this, it probably isn't something you would want
to participate in. The final videos will be hosted on Commons and other
video sites.<br>
<br>
Because we have limited time over three days, we won't be able to film
everyone, but we'll try to film as many as possible. We're trying to
cover a spectrum of people, projects, personalities, and nationalities.
We'll shoot mostly in English, but you'll be encouraged to add
responses in native or other languages as well.<br>
<br>
Jelly Helm, who was working with the Foundation at last year's
Wikimania as well, will be back to oversee and direct this production
alongside the Foundation. We're also working with a small film crew
from Hamburg who has done some work on the topic of Wikimedia's
projects before.<br>
<br>
You can get a sense of the kind of production that we're envisioning by
seeing some of the earlier work Jelly has done with a non profit in the
US called Oregon Humanities: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/oregonhumanities#" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/oregonhumanities#</a><br>
<br>
I'm really confident that the final videos and footage will be very
good, and highlight the people and passion of our projects. No one is
better at telling the story of why 'you' contribute than you - and
without a doubt (obviously!) Wikimedians know and speak about their
movement better than anyone else.<br>
<br>
The filming will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting at
about 11AM and running through 7 or 8 PM. If you'd like to participate
you can reach out to me off-list, or you'll probably meet or hear from
me or some of the other folks helping out with this project during
Wikimania. Again, we won't be able to film everyone, but we'll try to
get lots. If this proves successful we may try again next year as well
- particularly for the big 10 year anniversary.<br>
<br>
Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks in advance for
your interest - hope to see you take part.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
jay<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jay Walsh<br>
Head of Communications<br>
WikimediaFoundation.org<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://blog.wikimedia.org"
target="_blank">blog.wikimedia.org</a><br>
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Wikimania-l mailing list<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l"
target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l</a><br>
</blockquote>
</div>
<br>
<pre wrap="">
<fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset>
_______________________________________________
Wikimania-l mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org">Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Florence Devouard
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.devouard.com">http://www.devouard.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://speaker.devouard.com">http://speaker.devouard.com</a>
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (Stephen G Tallentyre),
The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire's beliefs on freedom of thought and expression.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>