I will arrange for music to be added and it would run on a projector and be followed either with a talk, or a Q & A. The general idea is to have some good presentation materials for use at any event where there is a WMF presence. Having now read Michael’s proposal on WN:WC I think the two things tie together nicely – an opening video showing one of our best collaborative efforts and a set of slides with talking points such as how Wikinews has changed, how original reporting has increased, how we now get stuff listed on Wikipedia articles, and so on.

If you think it’d be better with a voice-over we’d need a script drafted and I’d nominate skenmy to record that, in his best BBC presenter voice. :P

Brian McNeil

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From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark (Markie)
Sent: 26 February 2008 09:53
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikimania 2008

is this going to be with a talk, or just to be stuck up somewhere running on a projector? 

regards

mark

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org> wrote:

I've asked symode09 to apply his video skills to make a short film based on something I saw a while back that would fit nicely with that. The short description would be a stop-motion of an article's development.

The article I'd like to see this done for is the Anonymous protests (a) because it is OR and (b) because it involved massive global cooperation and coordination. So, Deni, the deadline for that is a few weeks before Wikimania '08. Earlier if possible so I can get original music for it released under a CC-BY license.

If I recall correctly the article in question started in story prep, so it'd go from there, fake up the "do you want to create this page message?" for the original title, then show the first revision. After that step through each revision, where the article reaches a length that won't fit on-screen you jump to where a change is being made and show the change being added. As pictures get added, show the picture inserted and perhaps then zoom it up for a second or so. When the video report gets inserted, run it. Finish should be a pause on the last version (hopefully followed by insertion of the Featured Article template – hint, hint). Then fade to the Wikinews logo with space for credits.

For Michael's suggestion I'll go and have a look on the Water Cooler shortly – still got about 30 emails to go through this morning.

Brian McNeil

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From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steven Fruitsmaak
Sent: 25 February 2008 19:31
To: wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikimania 2008

Hi,

I've been wanting to submit something about Wikinews for Wikimania 2008, maybe under the header "Wikinews: citizen journalism at the crossroads". I've posted something on the watercooler some time ago: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler#Wikimania_2008 , with no response. If anyone wants to team up and submit something, let me know.

Steven Fruitsmaak

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