Thank you.
Thank you for the advice, the time, the energy, and the fun so far. Look
forward to your continued work and helping with other projects, enjoy the
special moment with your family and what ever opportunities arise from the
independence.
Cheers
On 13 January 2018 at 04:57, Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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/
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