Thanks for posting - I loved the documentary! For me the most obvious difference between the groups shown in your various meetings and the get-togethers we have in the Netherlands is the age of the participants. I think we in WMNL attract a lot more "gray hair" than you do. I think it would be a great idea to cut it up into clips, because there are lots of themes in there that can all draw their own public (libraries & museums, WLM, QRpedia, etc.)
I wonder if the age difference has to do with the slightly political nature of keeping a smaller language afloat in a country that recognizes another language as the official one? It makes me wonder about the average age of the people showing up at meetings for the Frisian Wikipedia in the northern cities of the Netherlands. I have never been to one of their meetings before but now I am curious (and we don't have a Frisian Wikimedia community - yet). 2014-03-04 0:51 GMT+01:00, Quim Gil <[email protected]>: > On 03/03/2014 12:50 AM, Pau Giner wrote: >> The video, in Catalan, can be viewed at >> http://www.tv3.cat/videos/4930191/30%2520minuts%253A%2520VIQUIPEDISTES > > Yes, thank you! > > The documentary was good but, as a whole, more Catalan-centric than I > personally expected. Still, the ca.wiki community has started to discuss > the possibility to cut the documentary in "capsules", and then some of > those might become very good introductions for just anybody interested > in how Wikipedia works. No specific plans yet. > > The producers did a good job at compiling diverse perspectives and focus > areas: how some editors started with a first edit, how veteran editors > work on top quality articles with references, how admins deal with > vandalism, neutrality and different views in different languages, GLAM > and the photographers, community meetings, WMF and the state-based > chapters vs language-based projects, the role of public libraries and > museums as educators, content creators and gender gap shifters, the > views from the academia... > > One recurrent topic was the massive use of Wikipedia among young > students, with funny scenes at class when the kids laugh because their > works use basically the same sentences, all copied in a single stroke > from the same articles. How the teacher encourages them to use Wikipedia > but find your own words to express those ideas, where researchers think > that all this is heading to... > > They also interviewed the guy that created the first article in ca.wiki, > which happened to be the first article in a language other than English > -- https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac . It was interesting to hear > from him that one day the text-based Wikipedia will be history because > most probably learning will be based in media. It kept me thinking > whether it will be still the Wikimedia community who will ride that > wave, or someone else with fresh ideas and without the legacy and > community burdens we have... > > Anyway, at least Amical and ca.wiki have now very good audiovisual > materials that will help them a lot reaching out to new contributors and > explaining to them all the things we do here. > > >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> (Stepping out of my WMF tech role, wearing my ca.wiki volunteering hat.) >>> >>> This Sunday the program "30 minuts" of TV3 (top TV channel in Catalan) >>> will broadcast a documentary about "Wikipedistes". Yes, it has a small >>> audience compared to US prime time, but in terms of Catalan audience you >>> probably can't go more prime time than that without being ''indecent'' >>> or wearing a FC Barcelona shirt. :) >>> >>> http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/en >>> >>> What is more important, this veteran program keeps very high standards >>> in journalism and TV reporting. The two previews being aired these days >>> are promising: >>> >>> http://www.tv3.cat/30minuts/proper >>> >>> Any single editor appearing in these trailers has been already contacted >>> by friends and relatives ("Hey, I saw you on TV!!!"), and the ca.wiki / >>> Amical Wikimedia supporters can't wait to watch the full version. >>> >>> The documentary will be available online. If it is as good as the >>> average "30 minuts" documentaries are, we {{Who}} might think of a way >>> to get it subtitled in English. They have an archive of programs with >>> English subtitles (see the first link), but with all the budget cuts >>> public TV is facing I don't know how much resources would they have for >>> translating "Wikipedistes", even if the idea makes sense. Crowdsourcing? >>> Anyway, more if/when the documentary is good. >>> >>> -- >>> Quim Gil >>> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation >>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
