Hi all,
We are happy to announce that, three Bengali Wikisource Awareness Campaign videos have been released in Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_fhMDPgSjGGaGGvY4A38Q of West Bengal Wikimedians user Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians. This campaign was first such initiative to promote Wikisource among new readers.
The project was first placed in IdeaLab https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Awareness_video_for_Bengali_Wikisource as part of Inspire Campaign and was later funded by Wikimedia Foundation rapid grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Awareness_video_for_Bengali_Wikisource. The details can be found here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikisource_Awareness_Campaign.
The youtube links of the short videos can be found here - * লে হালুয়া https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g (What just happened) * মায়ের নজর https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g (Watchful eyes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g (World at your doorstep)
The videos were also uploaded to Commons. The links are as follows- * লে হালুয়া https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:লে_হালুয়া_(উইকিসংকলন_সচেতনতা_ভিডিও).webm (What just happened) * মায়ের নজর https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:মায়ের_নজর.webm (Watchful eyes) * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:দুনিয়া_যখন_দোরগোড়ায়.webm (World at your doorstep)
The video production could have not been possible without - * Director - Ishan Sharma (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata) * Cinematographer - Sukhansaar Singh (do) * Executive Producer - Aryaman Nath (do) * Sound Director - Sukrit Sen (do) * Focus Puller - Theodros Tadesse (Ethiopia) * Assistant Director - Sneha Das (do) * Editor - Himangshu Kamble (Mumbai) * Colorist - Pankaj Nelson (Mumbai) * Plot proposer - Deepanjan Ghosh (Radio Mirchi Kolkata) * Cast - Sujan Ghosh, Suavo Mukherjee, Ritam Sarkar, Raja Chakravorty, Shrabanti Bhattacharya and Avinash - * Bengali Wikisource team - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Hrishikes Sen, Mahir Morshed, Jayanta Nath - * WMF liaison - Satdeep Gill (Thanks a lot, buddy!)
It was a completely new experience for us, and we have learnt a lot from the entire project. We will try to promote the videos for next 1 month and submit our grant report within the deadline of 30 October, 2018.
Please do watch the videos and feel free to create subtitles in your languages. The English and Bengali subtitles are already there in Youtube and Commons.
Enjoy!!
Thanks, Bodhisattwa Bengali Wikisource community West Bengal Wikimedians User Group