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We'll shoot mostly in English, but you'll be encouraged to add responses in
native or other languages as well.
Ant
On 7/8/10 1:27 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
hey Jay,
thanks a lot for the heads up! Just one question: will the
conversations only be in English, or will you also be asking questions
in mother tongue? (or allow people to answer as they like). Combining
the two, asking both to answer in English and mother tongue, would
give some interesting opportunities when you want to roll something
out on a more world wide level - and it would allow people to more
freely express what they feel without having to translate in the mean
while etc - which might limit them.
best,
lodewijk
2010/7/8 Jay Walsh <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi folks,
For those who might not know me - I manage communications for the
Foundation, here for my third Wikimania!
Some of you may be aware that the Wikimedia Foundation is
undertaking a small production here at Gdansk this year, largely
to coincide with the presence of so many of our project
representatives from around the world. The intention of this
filming is to produce a bank of footage of our project
participants, and more specifically to produce a series of short
videos that will help show the faces and personalities behind our
projects. Much photography and video exists of our community, but
this is the first time we're working to produce something of
significant, studio-style quality that everyone will be able to
use. We'll be asking some basic questions about how the projects
work, particularly Wikipedia, so we can have interesting
perspectives and practical knowledge - first hand from the
contributors - to use for a variety of purposes.
The final videos will be CCBYSA, of course, and the timing of
their release (late August, early Sept) should help us with some
major upcoming milestones, specifically the 10th anniversary of
Wikipedia, our next major fundraiser, and efforts to both bring in
new editors and to provide a short, simple, and very good video
that portrays some of the people behind our movement. We hope the
videos can also be subtitled and localized by and for chapters and
other groups interested in supporting the Wikimedia projects.
Over the three days of Wikimania you might be approached by me or
one of a few staff or volunteers to share 10-15 mins of your time
to tell us about yourself and your involvement with the projects
on camera. The questions will be very simple - no special prep
needed, just your honest answers and enthusiasm.
This is of course 100% voluntary, and because we're filming just
off-site of the main venue (we've set up a small studio at the
adjacent Maritime Museum), it will only involve those who wish to
be filmed. This isn't a video project focussed on Wikimania
specifically, rather on the people of the projects, and why and
how you participate. A few other visiting video/media crews may be
shooting Wikimania itself (besides the many videographers amongst
the contributors), but this project is completely studio-based.
Obviously if you are not comfortable having your likeness,
username/name, and nationality used in a public work like this, it
probably isn't something you would want to participate in. The
final videos will be hosted on Commons and other video sites.
Because we have limited time over three days, we won't be able to
film everyone, but we'll try to film as many as possible. We're
trying to cover a spectrum of people, projects, personalities, and
nationalities. We'll shoot mostly in English, but you'll be
encouraged to add responses in native or other languages as well.
Jelly Helm, who was working with the Foundation at last year's
Wikimania as well, will be back to oversee and direct this
production alongside the Foundation. We're also working with a
small film crew from Hamburg who has done some work on the topic
of Wikimedia's projects before.
You can get a sense of the kind of production that we're
envisioning by seeing some of the earlier work Jelly has done with
a non profit in the US called Oregon Humanities:
http://www.youtube.com/user/oregonhumanities#
I'm really confident that the final videos and footage will be
very good, and highlight the people and passion of our projects.
No one is better at telling the story of why 'you' contribute
than you - and without a doubt (obviously!) Wikimedians know and
speak about their movement better than anyone else.
The filming will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting
at about 11AM and running through 7 or 8 PM. If you'd like to
participate you can reach out to me off-list, or you'll probably
meet or hear from me or some of the other folks helping out with
this project during Wikimania. Again, we won't be able to film
everyone, but we'll try to get lots. If this proves successful we
may try again next year as well - particularly for the big 10 year
anniversary.
Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks in advance
for your interest - hope to see you take part.
Best,
jay
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