Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:01 PM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Figuring out what to do with videos encyclopedia
wise is going to be
another potential interest
Yea.. Well there are lots of cases for use of video in a 'source'
material capacity. We're already doing a lot of that. But certainly we
write about TONS of things that move where a short video could improve
understanding.
I think the bigger challenge is that the text and imagery created by
Wikimedians is already at such high standards that making videos that
don't look out of place will be hard. Wikimedians routinely produce
still photography and diagrams which could hold their own in any
professional publication. Creating a video which is both informative
and polished looking is simply a lot harder than creating a good still
photograph.
Don't let's think about this purely in terms of using
video for wikipedia. Think about wikiversity lectures.
Lectures and instructional videos (wikibooks) generally
aren't polished and choreographed to the hilt.
But somehow I wouldn't be too pessimistic about the
quality anyhow, since the track-record overwhelmingly
has been that wikimedians have delivered, when given
the opportunity.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen