[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikipedia videos being released this week

[Bence Damokos]

Hi,
For localisation purposes can we somehow enable the YouTube captions system
which would allow human-checked and translated subtitles to be uploaded next
to the videos? (For that to work, the account owner has to do some magic I
think under YouTube's settings panels and then an actually intelligent
English version has to be provided that can than be translated using some
hidden Google tool.)
Last I checked the set-up process was a bit difficult to set up, but then
the actual translation could be done fairly easily. If we choose Youtube as
a distribution channel, I think we should go the extra mile and utilize its
internationalization capabilities to truly reflect our values.

Best regards,
Bence

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jay Walsh <Jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> This week the Foundation is excited to be releasing four separate videos
> shot at the recent Wikimania Conference in Gdansk, Poland.  The first video
> 'Username' is now posted on the WM Commons:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_User_Name_MEDIUM.ogv
>
> Later today the Foundation will be releasing the videos on a few other
> platforms as well, specifically to increase public visibility:
> http://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
> http://identi.ca/wikipedia
> http://www.youtube.com/wikimediafoundation
> http://vimeo.com/wmfoundation/
>
> I'll be posting more about the links on the Wikimedia blog later this
> morning (San Francisco time) blog.wikimedia.org
>
> And maybe some others.
>
> What are these videos?
> They were originally produced to complement the public outreach work going
> on now (and in the future) and to provide a short, energetic clip for folks
> to use in all sorts of presentations.  A very good example of that would be
> in Sue's keynote presentation from Wikimania, which some of you may have
> seen.  We hope everyone in the movement may find them useful, and we're
> particularly hopeful that they can be easily localized and shared even more
> widely.  They shed a new light on the passionate people behind our projects.
>
> Who made them?
> The clips were created for the Wikimedia Foundation (led mostly by
> Communications and Public Outreach) by a team that's been working with the
> Foundation over the past year. They were directed by Jelly Helm, produced by
> Noah Stanik, shot by DP Reed Harkness, and edited by Sarah Marcus. The music
> is by Portland, Oregon based musician Matt Carey. The Germany-based film
> production crew Living Colour was an essential partner in bringing
> everything together at the shoot in Gdansk, Poland, and Fenton
> Communications, who have been supporting the Foundation over the past year,
> were our agency partners in pulling this project together. We also owe the
> organizers of 2010's Wikimania conference a great deal of thanks for helping
> us sort out the production on the ground and for letting us borrow
> participants for short interviews.
>
> What's next?
> The remaining clips will be posted on Commons and other video sharing sites
> through Friday. Once they're all announced we'll share another note with all
> of the links. You can follow the progress and hear what the public thinks on
> identi.ca and twitter.  We hope to see the videos make an appearance in
> media and other blogs too.
>
> Hope you enjoy!
>
> --
> Jay Walsh
> Head of Communications
> WikimediaFoundation.org
> blog.wikimedia.org
> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw
>
>
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