And we of course have VideoWiki which is functional in more than 20 languages. As an example
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Video:Polio We have the ability to launch in further languages if interest J On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear wikimedians, > I recommend reading the very interesting diff post by Marshall Miller > about new user trends on Wikipedia: > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/. The > post talks about two main trends affecting our views: AI summaries and > video consumption by new generations. We don't have a good solution about > the first one, but I would like to talk about the second one, because in > the Basque Wikimedians User Group we have been working on this for some > years now, and I think our experience can be part of the solution. > > Five years ago we detected this trend and saw that, while there was a rise > on educative/informative videos for learning, those videos were mainly done > in English or hegemonic languages. Students and teachers were using videos > more than ever, but those videos weren't free nor in Basque. That's why we > created the platform Ikusgela on wiki and external media channels (Wiki > platform: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela, other > links to social media and video platforms there) > > After four years creating videos we have nearly 250 free educative videos > in Basque, many of those subtitled in other languages. We cover topics from > philosophy to evolution, from literature to basic science. And now we are > publishing an average of 2 new videos per week. We are now working on two > new series about migrations/rights and linguistics. The videos have > received the highest award in the Basque Country for communications and are > used now in education by teachers in many schools and MOOCs. More than 540 > articles in Wikipedia have a video from Ikusgela available, with many more > to come this school year. > > Making good quality videos is expensive, and we are making this in our own > with our funding and from competitive grants. However, once the videos are > made, remaking those in other languages should be cheaper. Building the > videos together is also cheaper than doing it alone. If your chapter or > user group is interested on that, let me know and we can make things > together. > > We, Basque Wikimedians, saw how this trend was coming and worked to take > advantage from it, instead of seeing how it decreases our relevancy. I hope > efforts from the WMF and other affiliates can go in the direction of > multimedia soon. > > Best, > > Galder > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/YI65RGQRGNOR6HOANGKM44SOXAGOFOXA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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