2008/12/19 Marcus Buck <[email protected]>: > I will not judge, cause I spent too few time on it, but this thing > doesn't work well for me. The subtitles or better sidetitles seem to be > not in synch and it looks confusing for me as a first time user. Is > there a coordination place or a place with information about the work on > the metavidWiki extension, where I can find info on the roadmap of the > extension? Or: When will it be done?
I will ask Michael Dale for more information. For the moment you'll find a nicer implementation at http://metavid.org/wiki/Stream:House_proceeding_06-09-08_01/0:01:38/0:10:00 However, as the footage will be published under a CC-by-SA licence and everyone will be able to produce a voice-over (or whatever seems to be suitable) in his own language. > I said "especially about languages", but I'm interested in the other > questions too. Who is the target? What's the concept? Our main goal is to reach out to a larger audience. I travelled a lot during the last few years, gave Wikipedia lectures and organized workshops. And people always asked me the same questions about Wikipedia. Thus, it seemed to be obvious to make this more scalable. What do we want to achieve with the two first Guided tours? * Guided tour #1: Show people how easy it is to edit Wikipedia / encourage them to click on the edit button: My experience so far: you can't imagine how many people don't know that everyone can edit Wikipedia. You give a lecture, everybody knows Wikipedia, and suddenly someone asks: "but what happens when I click on the edit button?" Every Wikipedian knows that uploading pictures on commons is much too complicated - but obviously clicking the edit button is almost the same big step. That was what astonished me most. Wikipedians tend to live in *their Wiki world*. They tend to forget about the problems of the "normal" user. To encourage these users to click the magic button and to become contributors - that's what we want to achieve with the first video. * Guided tour #2: Give answers to one the most often heard questions / build trust When I started to give Wikipedia lectures and workshops some years ago I had around thirty presentation slides on my notebook. After a short while I recognized: that's what makes people get tired. From that time on I open my lectures with two slides explaining the very basic concept behind Wikipedia and then encourage the audience to ask questions. And I can tell you: people have a *lot* of questions about Wikipedia. But one question is always the first one: "Why does Wikipedia work even though anyone can edit it?" Wikipedians would answer: Don't you know watchlists? And those Wikipedians forget: no, people don't know watchlists. The "watch this page" button is only available for registered users (perhaps we may want to change this in the future: unregistered users could be directed to a page explaining what a watchlist is and how useful this is - and encourage people to get a user account). Thus, to explain some of basic software features related to quality control (watchlists, recent changes) and to build trust - that's what we want to achieve with the second video. One of our big goals is to encourage and to broaden participation. To hit our target we need to create a personal invitation. That's why the first two videos will be Guided tours. The key purpose of these videos is not to explain, in detail, the "how" of editing. More in-depth how-to video tutorials are a separate part of my work and I invite everyone in the community who has experiences in creating screencasts to get in contact with me. > I mentioned the > speaker in the previous post, cause she appears very "American" to me. > In look, in habit, in body language. Theresa is Canadian. Wikipedia is an international project and our video tutorials should reflect that. Therefore, Theresa is one of many faces we will use to represent us, "the first of several." The next faces will perhaps come from India or from Russia. And I tell you, we had thousands of questions to answer. Should she wear earrings or not, what color should the table be, which browser should she use, and so forth. And I'm pretty sure not everyone will be happy with every little detail. Cheers Frank NB. This mail address is used for public mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
