Dear all?

disclaimer: This is a german-speaking project. I thought I should share this with you anyway, due to your affinities.

"videos for wikipedia articles", short "VWA", is a project which runs for almost one year. The efforts of "primary public service 2.0" (incubator of Leuphiana University), WikiTV and the science year 2014 (digital society) have been combined. The result was a project supported by Wikimedia Deutschland and the federal ministry for education and research to foster videos in Wikipedia:

* video competition on the creation of videos in the context of "digital society" for Wikipedia

* workshops to train and support future video producers

* intensive advertisement and outreach via banners on Wikipedia, mailinglist posts, international discussions like the video lunch at Wikimania etc.

The workshops are all over now and the submission deadline for the competition is past - now it is your turn!

Which videos should win? You vote!

There are 44 videos in three categories, you have ten votes which you can distribute freely:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Videos_f%C3%BCr_Wikipedia-Artikel...

Click through the categories, choose your prefered videos, share the news! We aim at a broad participation.

In parallel to the community vote there is a jury which is assessing all videos, so there will be two winners in each category, in total there will be six prices to be awarded at the ceremony at Wikimedia Deutschland on December 5th.

Links: * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTV/VWA/Wettbewerb * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTV/VWA/Workshops * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VWA_2014

A big thanks to Rillke who set up the voting tool!

Thanks a lot for your participation and regards,

Manuel