Is this suggestion because we are dissatisfied with the dozens if not hundreds and thousands of instructional videos already available? Maybe the suggestion is for Australian accent and language versions? A series in an Indigenous language would be remarkable! Or perhaps the suggestion is to create videos about Australia related projects and interest groups? In which case its a good suggestion. I for one would benefit from a video overview of the things going on. I have a few videos on my channel outlining Wikiversity work. And know of others looking at Wikinews. On 21/07/2013 8:44 AM, "Kerry Raymond" <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In **** > > ** ** > > http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Proposal_talk:2014_Annual_Plan#Proposal<http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal_talk:2014_Annual_Plan#Proposal> > **** > > ** ** > > Tony1 also suggests instructional videos to reinforce edit training and/or > to replace it. He asks is “is it too ambitious”? Because of the WMF’s > enthusiasm for metrics, it does drive our thinking towards “low-hanging > fruit” projects. **** > > ** ** > > Edit training workshops are a good example of this “low hanging” fruit > problem. We know we can run a certain number of edit training sessions, we > know that with the help of our GLAM partners, we can probably get a certain > attendance, we know that attendees seem to enjoy their day of edit training > (based on feedback forms) – so that’s a nice measurable success for a nice > project that we should keep doing. Could we put the effort instead into > instructional videos? Obviously instructional videos could potentially > reach a massive international audience, far greater than maybe the 100-200 > people we can train each year through workshops, but maybe they would be > absolutely zero downloads/views. So the risk/return profile of videos is > much higher (we can both succeed and fail more spectacularly) than for edit > training.**** > > ** ** > > Also we struggle to find volunteers among WMAU members and the Australian > WP community for our edit training workshops as our library partners like > to run these events on weekdays (incompatible with people’s work lives). > Would we find it more-or-less easy to get people to prepare instructional > videos which they could at 3am in their pyjamas if they wanted? I don’t > know. What are the relative costs? Well, edit training generally has travel > costs, but we’d probably need to spend some money on professional tools for > making instructional videos (screen-capture and video-editing software) and > perhaps some training on how to use them effectively.**** > > ** ** > > So what do we do? Low-risk/return edit training workshop or > higher-risk/return edit training videos? Of course in the ideal world of > infinite resources we can do both, but we don’t live in that world > (“everything costs something” as my former Vice-Chancellor used to say).** > ** > > ** ** > > Aside. In regard to edit training in any form, we have a practical problem > in relation to the progressive rollout of increasing functionality of the > visual editor. This impacts on our existing edit training workshop > materials (slides and manuals) and would impact on the preparation of > videos. But my question here is more philosophical about the risk/return > model of what we do.**** > > ** ** > > Kerry**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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