[Wikimedia-l] Community-Driven Video Production

[Samuel Klein]

Victor- a lovely idea.  Perhaps there are some subcommunities of
wikimedians on youtube and other video-sites who could help with not
just topical suggestions but potential videography suggestions...

SJ

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Victor Grigas <vgrigas at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone on Wikimedia-l
>
> My name is Victor, I am storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation in San
> Francisco, and I've been a volunteer editor since 2005:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas
>
> I have an idea that I'd like to propose:
>
> Since Wikipedia is open and collaborative, I thought that video
> collaboration should also be left open to the community, so I just wrote
> this on the Village Pump Idea Lab:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Community-Driven_Video_Production_Portal
>
> It is a proposal to create a forum where anyone can propose ideas that
> should be made into video. Those ideas can be polished and then a producer
> who is willing to volunteer (Wikipedian or otherwise) can read through
> scripts and produce the content they want to.
>
> This forum would serve video production on Wikipedia generally, not just
> for the work that i'm doing.
>
> Thanks for reading & I'd be happy to know your thoughts.
>
> --
>
> *Victor Grigas*
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