Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who's awesome? You're awesome.

Hi everyone, I just uploaded this video and thought you may like to see it: On Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File% 3AKnowledge_Belongs_to_All_of_Us_V9.0.2_(FINAL_CUT).webm And better rendering on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/250500802 I also have something else to say: After six and a half years as a Storyteller and Video Producer and a full-time employee of the Wikimedia Foundation after January 16, 2018, I'm going to be a private contractor and no longer a full-time employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. I’ll say that as a parent I need to be able to control my schedule. I’ll be available to WMF and others as a private contractor (schedule permitting) and I’ll still be a editing and uploading personally as a Wikimedian. Professionally, I’ve had a chance to explain a lot about Wikimedia and give it a face (yours!) and I’m proud of my shared accomplishments: The 2012 Thank you campaign and video series (and my ‘Wikipedia is invincible’ speech -- to inspire Wikimedians to talk on camera): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?banner=B12_1231_ ThankYou_Createacct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0NsY48OQdc&feature=youtu.be&t=1h2m… #Edit2014, #Edit2015, #FactsMatter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci0Pihl2zXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm1LKcHD1VE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs Knowledge for Everyone, the open letter, the petition, Jimmy’s explanation of Wikipedia Zero and the response from MTN: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_for_Everyone.webm https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/08/open-letter-free- access-wikipedia-south-africa/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title= WPZeroPetition&oldid=102855 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZf6h0Pus8 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/18/mtn-south-africa- responds-to-sinenjongo-high-school-open-letter-and- launches-wikipedia-zero/ I’d like to thank all the people we’ve gotten interviewed and photographed and all the stories of those that have been made public -- like Ward Cunningham, Mediawiki and NASA, the Goodall Family, Aniruddha Kumar, Emily Temple-Wood, Allan Warren, Mohomodou Houssouba, Hans Oleander, May Hachem, Evan Amos, Lionel Allorge, Mark Combs, Krish Dulal, Michael Mandiberg and Print Wikipedia, Ram Prasad Joshi, Tony Santiago, Zinaida Good, Melisa Parisi, Ken Thomas, Adrianne Wadewitz <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/10/the-impact-of- wikipedia-adrianne-wadewitz/> and many others: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)#A_few_Wikipedians https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/26/happy-birthday- ward-cunningham-inventor-of-the-wiki/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/05/mediawiki-nasa/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south- pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/30/the-right-to- information-on-wikipedia/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/31/funding-projects-pizza-grants/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/23/allan-warren-and-the-big-shots/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/26/developing-songhay-wikipedia/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/10/hans-oleander- offline-wikipedia-guide-tours-bottom-earth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37x7eBcDw_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqPATMelsg https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/18/drone-photography-of-versailles/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/23/forgotten-coal-towns-mark-combs/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5eATHPf-14 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/24/writing-wikipedia- from-the-western-hills-of-nepal/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/30/profile-tony-the-marine/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/28/everyone-edit- wikipedia-zinaida-good-profile/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/13/how-translating- the-simpsons-hooked-melisa-parisi-on-editing-wikipedia/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/17/when-putting-a- photo-on-the-web-is-an-act-of-generosity/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/10/the-impact-of- wikipedia-adrianne-wadewitz/ The 2011 fundraising campaign - which gave Brandon Harris his 15 minutes and led to the discovery that green backgrounds in photos get more clicks: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Report# Banners_and_Appeals https://www.gaijin.com/2011/06/a-personal-appeal-from- wikipedia-programmer-brandon-harris/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mr4pf/i_am_wikipedia_ programmer_brandon_harris_ama/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_green_vs._Jimmy_white All the times I documented Art+Feminism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di9IVpGR08w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PF5zUTaGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqqPfoKROe4 A whole web series on Wikipedia in Education: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_in_ Education_12-part_video_series Documenting the SOPA blackout: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Foundation_SOPA_War_Room_Meeting_1-17-2012-1-9.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Foundation_Wikipedia_Blackout_SOPA_January_18,_2012.theora.ogv One day I just started recording the WMF metrics meetings, just because I thought people would like to see them. They hadn’t really been recorded before, and it caught on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings All the Wikimanias I’ve documented in one way or another: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2016_in_ Esino_Lario,_Italy.webm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJEaN_nlZIg This strategy video from 2011 (which was really more of a retrospective, and the first video I produced at WMF), and this one from 2017: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpPnuSvCJLY All the annual reports that I’ve managed to contribute something to since 2011: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report Newsreels from Accra, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Mexico City, New York City, Baghdad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHaKSnwqdbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E310tlAEtFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFR2_4GEnoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KtOE39Hyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbSaPf-9B6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJD1hc1-FI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbha-43MaMc about topics like Wiki Loves Monuments, edit-a-thons, the public domain and the Creative Commons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzQf9VbH9g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY_WGKdapOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g5uxztwhwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZTh2NKTm4 and this blog post describing how you can do it too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/11/how-to-video-newsreel/ Various product updates and features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8igYCkFsyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3btQ5fpn4sA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5iyJSdpvwg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-CguGXWk8 This fundraising video and 20 minutes of b-roll of the WMF servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gi129oEk0M https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B-roll_of_Wikimedia_ Foundation_servers_at_CyrusOne_in_Carrollton,_Texas_ -_photographed_in_2015.webm A chance to have fun with Jimmy Wales as a mascot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrpWcsaECg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHebJTM0nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIDZG2Pqqg All the event, portrait, location and product photography I’ve been able to share and all the productions I’ve advised on and facilitated, too many to link to here. Which brings me to my next point: Wikipedia is invincible. I mean it. They could censor it. They could imprison and execute those who create it or use it. They could blow up the servers, burn every print-out and book based on it, ban every offline copy, forbid the word Wikipedia from being spoken and it would still exist -- because it’s an idea. It’s an idea that despite all early expectations actually works. And ideas like that are few, precious and very, very sticky. I keep the text below on the top of my WMF staff user page. I wrote it in 2013 as an ode to curiosity. I’d like to share it with you all now, because you all do truly awesome work: We're all curious. All of us. Our curiosity emboldens us. It teaches us to learn. To understand. To imagine. It’s part of our humanity. It enables us to do things that we’ve never done before. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. For the learners, and the teachers. For the curious. -- *Victor Grigas* Video Production Manager and Storyteller Wikimedia Foundation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpPnuSvCJLY> vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>