On 03/03/2014 12:50 AM, Pau Giner wrote:
The video, in Catalan, can be viewed at http://www.tv3.cat/videos/4930191/30%2520minuts%253A%2520VIQUIPEDISTES
Yes, thank you!
The documentary was good but, as a whole, more Catalan-centric than I personally expected. Still, the ca.wiki community has started to discuss the possibility to cut the documentary in "capsules", and then some of those might become very good introductions for just anybody interested in how Wikipedia works. No specific plans yet.
The producers did a good job at compiling diverse perspectives and focus areas: how some editors started with a first edit, how veteran editors work on top quality articles with references, how admins deal with vandalism, neutrality and different views in different languages, GLAM and the photographers, community meetings, WMF and the state-based chapters vs language-based projects, the role of public libraries and museums as educators, content creators and gender gap shifters, the views from the academia...
One recurrent topic was the massive use of Wikipedia among young students, with funny scenes at class when the kids laugh because their works use basically the same sentences, all copied in a single stroke from the same articles. How the teacher encourages them to use Wikipedia but find your own words to express those ideas, where researchers think that all this is heading to...
They also interviewed the guy that created the first article in ca.wiki, which happened to be the first article in a language other than English -- https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac . It was interesting to hear from him that one day the text-based Wikipedia will be history because most probably learning will be based in media. It kept me thinking whether it will be still the Wikimedia community who will ride that wave, or someone else with fresh ideas and without the legacy and community burdens we have...
Anyway, at least Amical and ca.wiki have now very good audiovisual materials that will help them a lot reaching out to new contributors and explaining to them all the things we do here.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
(Stepping out of my WMF tech role, wearing my ca.wiki volunteering hat.)
This Sunday the program "30 minuts" of TV3 (top TV channel in Catalan) will broadcast a documentary about "Wikipedistes". Yes, it has a small audience compared to US prime time, but in terms of Catalan audience you probably can't go more prime time than that without being ''indecent'' or wearing a FC Barcelona shirt. :)
http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/en
What is more important, this veteran program keeps very high standards in journalism and TV reporting. The two previews being aired these days are promising:
http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/proper
Any single editor appearing in these trailers has been already contacted by friends and relatives ("Hey, I saw you on TV!!!"), and the ca.wiki / Amical Wikimedia supporters can't wait to watch the full version.
The documentary will be available online. If it is as good as the average "30 minuts" documentaries are, we {{Who}} might think of a way to get it subtitled in English. They have an archive of programs with English subtitles (see the first link), but with all the budget cuts public TV is facing I don't know how much resources would they have for translating "Wikipedistes", even if the idea makes sense. Crowdsourcing? Anyway, more if/when the documentary is good.
-- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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