Hi Andy and everyone,
I think all the suggestions above are great! (clip from the film 'WEB' by Michael Kleiman that Leigh mentioned above, Commons link below): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WEB_Clip.webm
Andy, it's a little bit hard to know what to recommend without knowing the audience you'll be speaking to, but below are things that WMF has produced that I'd recommend:
We produced this as part of a series to function as sort of an 'ice breaker' to explain a few of the main points of Wikipedia very generally to a lay audience. It is closed-captioned in 20+ languages, I have used it and I know many others have when making presentations in the past :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_Of_Wikipedia.webm https://vimeo.com/54384859 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0
The series from 2012 illustrates a few personal stories of some of our projects: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVgaxIOUE2zua...
It was designed to lightly touch on the details of editing Wikimedia projects, without getting too complicated. More, it was made to show how the projects allow people to be creative in the areas they are interested in.
A few I'd recommend for a crowd:
Dumisani Ndubane - talks about Wikiversity: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia_Dumisani_Ndu... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvhABH-jFs
The late Adrianne Wadewitz talks about Wikipedia in Education: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia_Adrianne_Wad... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qwZ7jL4xyY
Mei Jiun Kwek talks about uploading images of crops to Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia_-_Mei_Jiun_K... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcGotJ927YM
Poongothai Balasubramanian - talks about writing mathematics articles in retirement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tojUFx6VdNs
Erlan Vega talks about Wiktionary: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Impact_of_Wikipedia_Erlan_Vega.w... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZWjJOoG3I
You could also try any of the 4 cuts of 'Knowledge for Everyone' that we shot last year ( http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/28/petition-for-free-access-to-wikipedia-o... ):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_for_Everyone.webm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_for_Everyone_(medium_cut)....
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_for_Everyone_(short_cut).w...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_for_Everyone_(short_cut,_n...
Again, it's a little hard to know what might work best without knowing the audience. I hope these are useful!
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian@gmail.com
wrote:
2014-10-22 16:51 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com:
Wikimedia Italia has produced, between 2010 and 2012, these four short videos about Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource and Wikiquote called "WikiGuide"(s)
(slightly OT) You may be also interested in knowing that WM-IT recently produced also this guide about OSM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeG49DxMsvw
It is not yet on Commons, and we are still missing the English subtitles.
(The most careful spectators will notice that most of the interfaces in the video are in English, this was a choice make to make easier to internationalize the video)
Cristian
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