Well, perhaps my hopes were set too high. I quite liked the look and feel of
the videos, but some of the dialogue were not quite as inspired as I had
hoped. Perhaps that will be fixed in further videos. Thanks for the link to
the strategy pages.
/Lennart
2009/12/7 Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
<wikihannibal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the information, Lennart.
The films were ready by some time in the spring
of 2009, I guess, and
Wikimedia Sverige showed them to a mildly impressed audience at our AGM.
There was no premiere or big news item about it and the whole thing went
almost unnoticed. Perhaps the idea was flawed, or the execution, or the
process, but either way, the films was not a success by any measure.
Oh dear, it sounds like you're a little downhearted by the affair. But
I enjoyed them. I guess it's fair to say that I'm a pretty committed
Wikipedian, though, and the videos weren't really aimed at me.
But this wasn't the "whole truth".
All in all, if memory serves, there
was
talk about a further dozen or so further films.
The further films was
intended to deal with the various other questions that the audience may
have: reverts, NPOV, the principles, copyright, and so on. Perhaps this
is a
project that the Bookshelf will take care of, or
maybe this is something
that is better done by amateurs on YouTube?
There's been some talk on the Strategy wiki and it's clear that some
people are quite keen on further video content:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tutorials
I hope you don't feel crestfallen by the videos. I liked them!
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