[Wikimedia-l] Community-Driven Video Production

[Samuel Klein]

The discussion should take place on Meta or Outreach, certainly.

Finding people to encourage to share their ideas could involve looking
beyond the current active Commons/Meta/Outreach contributors

SJ

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
<rodrigo.argenton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not on Meta, or Outreach?
>
>
>
> On 16 February 2013 02:24, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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*
>> > Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0>
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