Hi Avery,

You might be interested in my final report from the previous grant, which is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vide... .

I was not planning to publish the referencing videos to YouTube, but I think that's a good idea. Do you have any suggestions about how to make the videos be easy for people to find if they search for Wikipedia help with referencing on Youtube? If so, I would be appreciative if you'd add those comments to the project talk page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_... .

Accessibility and translation are very much in my mind as I'm working on the current script. An issue to keep in mind is that the various language editions of Wikipedia have variations in policies and workflows, so translation alone may be insufficient to adapt a video or tutorial from one language edition of Wikipedia to another language edition of Wikipedia.

I like the interactive nature of the Wiki Ed tutorial. WMF's Growth Team is developing in-context help, which I think is also a good method for teaching. My guess is that the optimal ways to teach how to edit Wikipedia will be a combination of methods including video, interactive tutorials possibly with quizzes and certifications, in-context help, and individualized help. As an example of how the methods could be blended, I think that in-context help could offer video tutorials of varying lengths to cover certain subjects.

Thanks for the comments.

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:24 PM Avery Jensen averydjensen@gmail.com wrote:

@Bekriah, that is very exciting. From time to time we have native Arabic speakers attend our events and have wondered how we could offer them instruction in Arabic. We would appreciate any further information you have on pending projects (or by email if it's not public or of general interest to this list).

@Pine, it has been suggested to me that your original project might have been slowed because of the complexity of not only the instruction itself, but also knowledge about how to make an instructional video. There is supposed to be an online course on making instructional videos, but it has not been released yet. In the context of Wikipedia, the process is even more of a challenge because the YouTube format cannot be easily imported to Commons. It would also be an advantage to have transcripts available for those with hearing disabilities or who do not speak the language. There have been captioning and translation projects but they depend on transcripts.

If anyone has not seen the self paced tutorials in the WikiEd training library, here is the first one, a basic overview. https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/wikipedia-essentials This type of tutorial has the advantage of being self paced and geared to visual learners (which is maybe 80% of an average class). Anyone who doesn't speak the language can easily use a translation tool to get a basic idea of the content.