Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles.
--[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas <vgri...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, > Wikipedia: #Edit2014. > > Wikimedia Commons: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm > > Youtube: > http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY > > Vimeo: > https://vimeo.com/114673230 > > It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. > (We know we didn't get it all!) > > We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on > social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we > want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the > first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of > people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. > > Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on > what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you > migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on > Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to > everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing > to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in > putting this together, so thank you all. > > If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course > share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate > the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand > it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they > come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open > captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it > to advocate that they should.) > > We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more > collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we > had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the > beginning. > > We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as > soon as they're out. > > Thanks! :) > > Victor & the WMF Communications team > > -- > > *Victor Grigas* > Storyteller <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> > Wikimedia Foundation > vgri...@wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
