I agree, great idea. Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's using Wikipedia.

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:08:02 -0800 From: alin@wikimedia.org To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video?

I really like this idea. Thanks Tom! Annie

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org wrote:

Dear professors,

I would like to invite you all to make a short video using your own

computer saying why you have joined the Wikipedia Education Program

and the benefits you have found for your students.

During my last presentations to professors around Brazil, I've started

to show these two short videos, one of professor Juliana Bastos in a

TV news, and the other of professor Pablo Ortellado I made with my

mobile:

http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=285520

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Pablo_Ortellado_-_Wikipedia_na_Univers...

I can always see the positive reactions on the other professors faces.

I don't believe it needs to be too professional, just say with your

heart. I remember the first time I publish one video of professor

Juliana on my facebook, 5 professors came talk to me. I think that

would be a good way to persuade other professors on all the important

issues involved in building an free encyclopedia.

Best,

Tom

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May be you need ogv player installed. More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogv

On 22.11.2012 11:16, Christine Trala wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video? The video does not play.

On 22/11/2012 07:37, "Axel Pettersson" axel.pettersson@wikimedia.se wrote:

I agree, great idea.

Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview
I did last year:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv
It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel
laureate who's using Wikipedia.

/axel

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:08:02 -0800
From: alin@wikimedia.org
To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to
make a video?

I really like this idea. Thanks Tom!

Annie



On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
<ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org> wrote:

    Dear professors,

    I would like to invite you all to make a short video using
    your own
    computer saying why you have joined the Wikipedia Education
    Program
    and the benefits you have found for your students.

    During my last presentations to professors around Brazil, I've
    started
    to show these two short videos, one of professor Juliana
    Bastos in a
    TV news, and the other of professor Pablo Ortellado I made with my
    mobile:

    http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=285520

    http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Pablo_Ortellado_-_Wikipedia_na_Universidade.ogv

    I can always see the positive reactions on the other
    professors faces.
    I don't believe it needs to be too professional, just say with
    your
    heart. I remember the first time I publish one video of professor
    Juliana on my facebook, 5 professors came talk to me. I think that
    would be a good way to persuade other professors on all the
    important
    issues involved in building an free encyclopedia.

    Best,

    Tom

    --
    Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
    Wikimedia Brasil
    Wikimedia Foundation

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P. S. as a personal comment, I remember when I was a physics student I liked very much John Baez because of his clever contributions to things I like to study. [1] Now I discover that his is a wikipedian!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/John_Baez

That can have a huge influence on students. Or even foster WMF plans to make online citation simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=522019127

He lives now in California, according to Wikipedia. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez#External_links

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi, Alex.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson axel.pettersson@wikimedia.se wrote:

...

Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's using Wikipedia.

That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :)

You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short interviews with some wikipedians with articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles

Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about Wikipedia and the program.

Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on copyright reform and free software here in Brazil:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikiped...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fal...

We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject.

Tom

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser

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Tack, Harald. I think this is also an important point and I like your idea.

From the list I've sent, we can see only a few women (two names I've

recognized are co-workers, so that is not fair now :).

I strongly believe we need humanize more Wikipedia and I believe such videos can help a bit with that, mainly if we find women for helping us.

Best,

Tom

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Harald Andersson wikiharald@live.se wrote:

This sounds good Tom,

Today I had a workshop at a Swedish High School about Wikipedia, and we discussed some about the difference between men and women on wikipedia. In the same time my collegue said it would be good if we could find famous persons who could be "Wikipedia-embassadors" (willing to say "I am editing on Wikipedia"). You (and Axel on the video) have good idéas. What I was thinbking was that maybe we should try to find famous women who could say what they think about wikipedia. This would be good for all the women and girls who needs to find people to look at and see "They can, and so can I!"

Best regards, Harald Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden)