There is interest! We should find be ways to ask in other languages. Maybe a Collab w module common voice
🌍🌏🌎🌑 On Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 12:07 PM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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/B7H5ZXYSBIPKV7E646CUBJSTXMFA6DL4/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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