@Bekriah, that is very exciting. From time to time we have native Arabic speakers attend our events and have wondered how we could offer them instruction in Arabic. We would appreciate any further information you have on pending projects (or by email if it's not public or of general interest to this list).
@Pine, it has been suggested to me that your original project might have been slowed because of the complexity of not only the instruction itself, but also knowledge about how to make an instructional video. There is supposed to be an online course on making instructional videos, but it has not been released yet. In the context of Wikipedia, the process is even more of a challenge because the YouTube format cannot be easily imported to Commons. It would also be an advantage to have transcripts available for those with hearing disabilities or who do not speak the language. There have been captioning and translation projects but they depend on transcripts.
If anyone has not seen the self paced tutorials in the WikiEd training library, here is the first one, a basic overview. https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/wikipedia-essentials This type of tutorial has the advantage of being self paced and geared to visual learners (which is maybe 80% of an average class). Anyone who doesn't speak the language can easily use a translation tool to get a basic idea of the content.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 5:15 PM Bekriah Mawasi bekriahm@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
It's fascinating how diverse these tutorials are, especially that they serve a similar purpose, thank you very much for sharing!
At Wikimedia Israel we have been developing an instructional website in Arabic called Wiki Warsha ويكي ورشة ("wiki workshop"). The tutorials consist of multimedia elements (video, text, images), and are divided into 13 chapters taking into account the particularities of Arabic Wikipedia. The tutorials provide self-learners and new comers with basic information on the following: Wikipedia homepage structure, About Wikipedia articles, Creating an account, Signing with a registered account, Creating a userpage, Writing a new article, Editing an article, Formatting the article, Adding image, Adding internal and external links, Adding references, Adding categories, Request edits approval on Arabic Wikipedia. The choice to make video, text and image tutorials in a website format was made in order ensure access on different devices including smartphones and tablets, and to make the web content accessible to people with disabilities too.
Attaching in the link a sample draft of one of the videos we are working on, Adding images:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zV1CrIpoENpPd1OR4rRgy0QncR-NE1O8/view
In the past, the chapter has developed an interactive courseware in Hebrew which has proved to be successful. The courseware is divided into four chapters: 1) The interface 2) Editing article and userpage 3) Talk and community 4) Adding images. For example, Link: Editing interface < https://wikimedia.org.il/wp-content/plugins/sgc-wikimedia-elearning//Standin...
(Hebrew)
*Bekriah*
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 2:35 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks very much for the information regarding these videos in Swedish, Basque, and Spanish. I'm impressed by the quality of the recent videos in Basque and Spanish that I watched, to the extent that I understand them.
In
the past two to three years have I also learned about recently produced instructional videos through publications such as affiliates' reports and *This Month in Education* <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News .
To the extent that I understand the video in Spanish that Dennis linked <
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutoriales_WMCL_-_Agregar_referenc...
,
I think that it is very good, so I'm now thinking that I will suggest to WMF that I not create a Spanish version of the video that I am producing, but in the future if there is interest in having instructional videos in Spanish regarding different subjects that are not already covered by existing videos then I may propose creating Spanish versions of videos
that
I plan for English Wikipedia, Commons, or other projects.
As far as I know, there is no easily accessible catalog of what Wikimedia instructional videos exist. Finding some instructional videos is possible using the Commons category tree and by searching for file names on
Commons,
but not all videos are easy to find using those methods, and several instructional videos that I found on Commons are outdated. I boldly
created
a page here <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_ed...
for cataloging Wikimedia instructional videos, and I would like to invite people to expand that list, especially for videos which contain current information and have good production quality. Hopefully having a common catalog will help those of us who produce videos to get ideas from
watching
others' videos, and to consider whether to translate or reuse portions of existing videos. If someone thinks that they have a better idea for cataloging existing Wikimedia instructional videos, or if there is a catalog that already exists, please reply to this thread or contact me
off
list.
Regarding documenting my process, I am placing notes <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_ed...
on Meta that are in addition to the grant proposal, the talk page for the grant proposal, and the scripts.
Thanks again for sharing information.
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