Every Wikimania has its strengths, and its weaknesses.
Most Wikimanias are organised by a great group of volunteers - often the
bottle neck. That also offers an advantage: if you care a lot about a
specific issue (like live streaming), that gives you the opportunity to
volunteer to organise that, and make it happen in an awesome way. It does
not guarantee that it happens (because you also need equipment etc), but
with a dedicated volunteer to make it happen, who could potentially even
rally to get the funding for it (grants anyone?), you significantly
increase the odds.
Lodewijk
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Jan Ainali <jan(a)ainali.com> wrote:
Well a good work-around there is to live stream the
sessions. That way no
one, neither volunteers or professionals need to do anything after the
conference. In Gdansk 2010 all sessions were live streamed. That no
Wikimania after that has held up to that standard is confusing me.
/Jan Ainali
On August 14, 2015, Edward Saperia <edsaperia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, I would suggest looking hard at the stats on how often videos are
viewed (and if there is a way to know if they are viewed all the way
through or not).
For Wikimania 2014, the Youtube page
<https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimaniaLondon/videos> and livestream
<https://livestream.com/wikimania> show some stats (videos are also
available in Commons so some views may not be captured in the former
pages). On livestream, were videos were shared first, the most viewed video
shows 2,359 views, it is not hard to find videos in the 100-500 view range,
and others just have less than 20 views.
It's certainly a professional job to get all the session video produced
and published in good time after the conference. No volunteer team could do
this, it requires a LOT of equipment, professional expertise and hard work.
To me, the view numbers seem *excellent -* if you consider the conference
in terms of price-per-attendee, spending <5% more so that additional
hundreds can see the content is an order of magnitude better value.
*Edward Saperia*
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