Hi wiki-videoniks,

Thought you'd all be interested in this initiative for "oral citations"; the project is actually quite deeply video-centric in an interesting way.

Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:08 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Dear friends,

At the beginning of 2011, a group of us began working on a project to explore alternative methods of citation on Wikipedia. We were motivated by the lack of published resources in much of the non-Anglo-European world, and the very real difficulty of citing everyday aspects of lived reality in India and South Africa.

We are now at a stage where the project is almost complete, and we'd like to share our work with the broader movement, especially within India and South Africa.

There are three languages we worked within: Malayalam, Hindi and Sepedi.

The project page documents the process and logistics employed, as well as the findings and results:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations

A film made on the project is available here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv?withJS=Media... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv or http://vimeo.com/26469276

There have been discussions on oral citations for some time now within the language communities we worked with for the duration of the project. At this stage, we are really interested in *your* feedback, either on this list, or on the Discussion section of the project page.

There are still some things to come, namely:

- Updates on events, meetings and discussions held around the project (as they happen) - Updates on articles created in Malayalam, Hindi and Sepedi as a result of the project (as they happen) - English transcripts of the interviews and a full English subtitle track for further translation (we could use some help here).

We would be very grateful to hear your feedback, and begin a broader discussion.

Best wishes, Achal

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