Every Wikimania has its strengths, and its weaknesses. Most Wikimanias are organised by a great group of volunteers - often the bottle neck. That also offers an advantage: if you care a lot about a specific issue (like live streaming), that gives you the opportunity to volunteer to organise that, and make it happen in an awesome way. It does not guarantee that it happens (because you also need equipment etc), but with a dedicated volunteer to make it happen, who could potentially even rally to get the funding for it (grants anyone?), you significantly increase the odds.
Lodewijk On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote: > Well a good work-around there is to live stream the sessions. That way no > one, neither volunteers or professionals need to do anything after the > conference. In Gdansk 2010 all sessions were live streamed. That no > Wikimania after that has held up to that standard is confusing me. > > /Jan Ainali > > > On August 14, 2015, Edward Saperia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > However, I would suggest looking hard at the stats on how often videos are > viewed (and if there is a way to know if they are viewed all the way > through or not). > > > For Wikimania 2014, the Youtube page > <https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimaniaLondon/videos> and livestream > <https://livestream.com/wikimania> show some stats (videos are also > available in Commons so some views may not be captured in the former > pages). On livestream, were videos were shared first, the most viewed video > shows 2,359 views, it is not hard to find videos in the 100-500 view range, > and others just have less than 20 views. > > > It's certainly a professional job to get all the session video produced > and published in good time after the conference. No volunteer team could do > this, it requires a LOT of equipment, professional expertise and hard work. > > To me, the view numbers seem *excellent -* if you consider the conference > in terms of price-per-attendee, spending <5% more so that additional > hundreds can see the content is an order of magnitude better value. > > *Edward Saperia* > Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.com> > email <[email protected]> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> > • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 > 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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