On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM, phoebe ayers<phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: As someone who is unlikely to be able to ever attend a Wikimania unless it comes to London I'd like to express my gratitude for all the effort that's gone into that. I've watched quite a few and intend to watch many more. There is, however, room for improvement on this front. So here's what I would like to see, in terms of video, from the next Wikimania: 1. Some of the videos have issues (eg, absent sound for part of the talk or audio track slowed down to the extent that people sound like orcs). It would be good if whoever uploads the video would view the content and try to solve such issues before making them available. If it's not possible to solve the issue it would be good if they could annotate the video (eg "sound absent until 2:48") so people are forewarned and can fast forward to the watchable portion. 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk. 3. On the videos with a Q&A segment the audience often doesn't have a microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible, could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for the benefit of the camera? 4. More of an observation than a recommendation: as I've watched the videos most of their respective talk pages have not yet been contributed to (they're red links). The same can be said for their entries in the Wikimania schedule. I thought more people would be wanting to discuss the content of the talks. Despite my various gripes it's really great to have so many videos, so thanks to everyone involved. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all presenters could be encouraged to upload their presentation slides (I know some already do this) so people can view along as they listen to the audio of the talk.

3. On the videos with a Q&A segment the audience often doesn't have a microphone so the viewer can't hear the questions. Could more talks provide the audience with a microphone? And where this isn't possible, could speakers be encouraged to repeat or summarise the question for the benefit of the camera?

I would definitely encourage everybody to upload slides and link them with the video versions; PDF slides can be uploaded directly to Commons and can now be viewed inline as well as downloading them.

At another conference, the video switched from the camera viewpoint to the slides back and forth (I do not know wheth- er that was done while recording or in post-production). Ob- viously, this requires more manpower but the result was worth it. Tim

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote: In an ideal world, it might be nice to have a video of the speaker and a slideshow of the presentation available side-by-side in the same window. Thanks, Pharos _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l