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[[File:Wikipedia Edit 2014.webm|thumb|center|600px|Above
was
#Edit2014. You can collaborate to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 make #Edit2015 here].]]
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[[File:Wikipedia Edit 2014.webm|thumb|center|600px|Above
is
#Edit2014
, the first Wikipedia Year-in-Review video
. You can collaborate to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 make #Edit2015 here].]]
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Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first-ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/ published our first ever video year-in-review] which covered some of the major news events of 2014 through the lens of Wikipedia. I talked about the process of making the video [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/edit2014-qa-with-the-producer/ here]. This year, we're opening up the idea development and pre-production process of making a video for 2015 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 to everyone]''. Last year's video was largely made by myself and [https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ADEAAAoZDpsBYdK7FZlPr-N1noobCxlai8OEsxk&authType=OPENLINK&authToken=_NPA&locale=en_US&srchid=232965861440525382488&srchindex=1&srchtotal=14&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A232965861440525382488%2CVSRPtargetId%3A169414299%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3AOPENLINK another video editor] over about 8 weeks at the end of 2014. I spent the first half of my 8 weeks researching news and view and edit counts of Wikipedia pages and then searching for media to illustrate those events. After I had that media, it was a matter of taste to place them in a video editing timeline. Fortunately when we published it, the press and the general population on the internet liked it too. I really didn't know if it would work or not -- but I think it did. All things considered, I think that #Edit2014 was a good start, and I'm happy with the final result, but I'd like to improve a few things for #Edit2015.
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Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/wikipedias-first-ever-annual-video-reflects-contributions-from-people-around-the-world/ published our first ever video year-in-review] which covered some of the major news events of 2014 through the lens of Wikipedia. I talked about the process of making the video [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/17/edit2014-qa-with-the-producer/ here]. This year, we're opening up the idea development and pre-production process of making a video for 2015 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 to everyone]''. Last year's video was largely made by myself and [https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=ADEAAAoZDpsBYdK7FZlPr-N1noobCxlai8OEsxk&authType=OPENLINK&authToken=_NPA&locale=en_US&srchid=232965861440525382488&srchindex=1&srchtotal=14&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A232965861440525382488%2CVSRPtargetId%3A169414299%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3AOPENLINK another video editor] over about 8 weeks at the end of 2014. I spent the first half of my 8 weeks researching news and view and edit counts of Wikipedia pages and then searching for media to illustrate those events. After I had that media, it was a matter of taste to place them in a video editing timeline. Fortunately when we published it, the press and the general population on the
[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23edit2014&src=typd
internet liked it too
]
. I really didn't know if it would work or not -- but I think it did. All things considered, I think that #Edit2014 was a good start, and I'm happy with the final result, but I'd like to improve a few things for #Edit2015.
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==
This
is my
plan==
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==
Here's
the
plan==
[[File:Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program - the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Other Officials of the P5+1 and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran and EU in Lausanne.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program has been ongoing in the international press]]
[[File:Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program - the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Other Officials of the P5+1 and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran and EU in Lausanne.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program has been ongoing in the international press]]
[[File:Nh-pluto-in-true-color_2x_JPEG.jpg|thumb|right|300px|These images of Pluto made the international news]]
[[File:Nh-pluto-in-true-color_2x_JPEG.jpg|thumb|right|300px|These images of Pluto made the international news]]
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[[File:CITIZENFOUR (2014) trailer.webm|thumb|right|300px|This film (trailer above) won an Oscar for best documentary film]]
[[File:CITIZENFOUR (2014) trailer.webm|thumb|right|300px|This film (trailer above) won an Oscar for best documentary film]]
[[File:Cecil the lion at Hwange National Park (4516560206).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cecil the Lion's death made international news]]
[[File:Cecil the lion at Hwange National Park (4516560206).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cecil the Lion's death made international news]]
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'''Open Collaboration''' - I'm opening up the whole idea-development and pre-production process (research
, storyboarding
, scriptwriting, brainstorming, finding media, etc.) for making #Edit2015 to on-wiki collaboration. This itself would be an experiment. Fortunately, we have #Edit2014 as a guide to show that a final product can be done. Making #Edit2014 taught me that year-in-review videos cover international news events through a brand (in this case Wikipedia) ''by telling each news story in about 5 seconds'' and then cutting to the next one. You multiply that by maybe 20 stories and then your video is already 2 minutes long if you include credits, logos and titles. If you watch other year-in-review videos (like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE Google Zeitgeist Year In Search]) you'll see how each will spend 5 seconds on a topic and then jump to the next.
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'''Open Collaboration''' - I'm opening up the whole idea-development and pre-production process (research, scriptwriting, brainstorming, finding media, etc.) for making #Edit2015 to on-wiki collaboration. This itself would be an experiment. Fortunately, we have #Edit2014 as a guide to show that a final product can be done. Making #Edit2014 taught me that year-in-review videos cover international news events through a brand (in this case Wikipedia) ''by telling each news story in about 5 seconds'' and then cutting to the next one. You multiply that by maybe 20 stories and then your video is already 2 minutes long if you include credits, logos and titles. If you watch other year-in-review videos (like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE Google Zeitgeist Year In Search]) you'll see how each will spend 5 seconds on a topic and then jump to the next.
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First drafts of Edit2014 were half global news and half wiki-world news. I wanted to showcase as many
wikimedia
tools, events and projects as possible. What I found was that since this is for a wide audience, and it's only a few short minutes long, we only have a chance to communicate one or two ''new ideas'' (for an ordinary person who uses the internet) and unfortunately, most people (for this internet audience) have heard of Wikipedia, but probably not other Wikimedia projects so
I
had to be very selective about what was showcased. In this case, it was a chance to talk about the ''edit button'' and ''Wiki Loves Monuments'' briefly. Then we have to get back to those global shared news events that the public may have experienced. Aspects like 'going down the rabbit hole' clicking link after link was something that ordinary people were familiar with, so this is something that we used to bridge stories.
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First drafts of Edit2014 were half global news and half wiki-world news. I wanted to showcase as many
Wikimedia
tools, events and projects as possible. What I found was that since this is for a wide audience, and it's only a few short minutes long, we only have a chance to communicate one or two ''new ideas'' (for an ordinary person who uses the internet) and unfortunately, most people (for this internet audience) have heard of Wikipedia, but probably not other Wikimedia projects so
we
had to be very selective about what was showcased. In this case, it was a chance to talk about the ''edit button'' and ''Wiki Loves Monuments'' briefly. Then we have to get back to those global shared news events that the public may have experienced. Aspects like 'going down the rabbit hole' clicking link after link was something that ordinary people were familiar with, so this is something that we used to bridge stories.
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The idea-development and pre-production process does not require any fancy video equipment at all - just a wiki page and an internet connection. I used post-it notes on my wall to organize my ideas. I think that we (the Wikimedia crowd) can be very good at story development and collaboration. I have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 here in my staff namespace a page] where I've been collecting imagery and ideas (please
excuse
the
mess
), and I'd like to allow anyone to use this space as a place to collaborate on this project (if we decide to host it elsewhere we can make it redirect).
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The idea-development and pre-production process does not require any fancy video equipment at all - just a wiki page and an internet connection. I used post-it notes on my wall to organize my ideas. I think that we (the Wikimedia crowd) can be very good at story development and collaboration. I have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 here in my staff namespace a page] where I've been collecting imagery and ideas (please
feel
free
to organize this
), and I'd like to allow anyone to use this space as a place to collaborate on this project (if we decide to host it elsewhere we can make it redirect).
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An idea I had for this year is to somehow showcase the talk pages about Wikipedia articles, to show ''how'' we arrive at consensus and neutral-point-of-view, Finding the right article(s) and talk page quotes to use to illustrate that would be key. Last year, we showcased the edit button
-
the Gaza
war
from
2014
we see closeups of citation needed
,
disputed-discuss
, etc.,
then we cut to the different languages of that article. Imagine if you saw a tiny fraction of the behind-the scenes talk about
those
articles
?
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An idea I had for this year is to somehow showcase the talk pages about Wikipedia articles, to show ''how'' we arrive at consensus and neutral-point-of-view, Finding the right article(s) and talk page quotes to use to illustrate that would be key. Last year, we showcased the edit button
using
the
[[:en:2014_Israel–Gaza_conflict|2014 Israel-
Gaza
conflict.]]
For
that,
we see closeups of
'
citation needed
'
and '
disputed-discuss
'
then we cut to the different languages of that article. Imagine if you saw a tiny fraction of the behind-the scenes
''
talk
''
about
an article like that and how it aims for
objectivity
?
'''Rules''' - These are some basic criteria I made to guide what content got into #Edit2014, I think they can be reused this year:
'''Rules''' - These are some basic criteria I made to guide what content got into #Edit2014, I think they can be reused this year:
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* Is the media beautiful?
* Is the media beautiful?
* Does the Wikimedia Foundation legal team approve of the media?
* Does the Wikimedia Foundation legal team approve of the media?
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* Do we have media and news from every major region of the world?
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* Do we have
some
media and news from every major region of the world?
As for production and post-production - Continuity, music, audio mixing, et cetera are all things that ''should ideally'' be online and in a collaborative manner but currently there is no system in place to collaborate on those things using Wikimedia projects. I'd love to develop that system, but I don't think that it is practical for this year. I'd also like to aim to make the video as close to 2 minutes in length as possible.
As for production and post-production - Continuity, music, audio mixing, et cetera are all things that ''should ideally'' be online and in a collaborative manner but currently there is no system in place to collaborate on those things using Wikimedia projects. I'd love to develop that system, but I don't think that it is practical for this year. I'd also like to aim to make the video as close to 2 minutes in length as possible.
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'''Schedule''' - So the logical publication date for #Edit2015 is December 15th -- this is because that's when many people in the press who would republish and spread the video are still at work, publishing stories, and this is an easy story for them to publish before they go on vacation at the end of December. Getting this in the press gets more eyeballs on the video. That means that actual editing should be well on its way in October and November. This is my current schedule (for now):
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'''Schedule''' - So the logical publication date for #Edit2015 is December 15th -- this is because that's when many people in the press who would republish and spread the video
on social media
are still at work, publishing stories, and this is an easy story for them to publish before they go on vacation at the end of December. Getting this in the press gets more eyeballs on the video. That means that actual
video
editing should be well on its way in October and November. This is my current schedule (for now):
*Brainstorm and pre-production: now - October 1st
*Brainstorm and pre-production: now - October 1st
*Production (assemble the footage): October 1st - November 15th
*Production (assemble the footage): October 1st - November 15th
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*Distribution (captions and translations, thumbnails, text copy, uploading, and any last-minute edits): December 1st - December 15th
*Distribution (captions and translations, thumbnails, text copy, uploading, and any last-minute edits): December 1st - December 15th
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'''Internationalism''' - My biggest problem with #Edit2014 was that so much of it was in English. I know that while we tried to cover as many regions as possible
,
and use as many languages as possible, if you are a non-English speaker you'd probably have to watch it with the captions on (and then it moves so fast, that you lose the interplay of the images and the text because your eyes are stuck reading text on the bottom of the screen). I think that opening up the development and pre-production phase would flatten out the perspective quite a bit, or at least help to point out flaws and suggest other ideas. We shouldn't have to rely on captions to make it universally understandable. And since we'll be jumping from one story to the next in 5 seconds, it's entirely ok to express a story in any local language, because even if the viewer doesn't understand the language that they are seeing on screen, they know that the next language is coming in 5 seconds, and that there may be 'universal' communication media like video, imagery or numbers that are associated with the text that they ''can'' understand.
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'''Internationalism''' - My biggest problem with #Edit2014 was that so much of it was in English. I know that while we tried to cover as many regions as possible and use as many languages as possible, if you are a non-English speaker you'd probably have to watch it with the captions on (and then it moves so fast, that you lose the interplay of the images and the text because your eyes are stuck reading text on the bottom of the screen). I think that opening up the development and pre-production phase would flatten out the perspective quite a bit, or at least help to point out flaws and suggest other ideas. We shouldn't have to rely on captions to make it universally understandable. And since we'll be jumping from one story to the next in 5 seconds, it's entirely ok to express a story in any local language, because even if the viewer doesn't understand the language that they are seeing on screen, they know that the next language is coming in 5 seconds, and that there may be 'universal' communication media like video, imagery or numbers that are associated with the text that they ''can'' understand.
'''Media Content''' - I'd love it if we could somehow have more audio/video content for #Edit2015. I looked for freely-licensed video and .gifs on Wikimedia Commons, Vimeo, Internet Archive and YouTube and the first few versions of Edit2014 incorporated bits and pieces of a few works, but much of it was too busy or complicated to communicate an idea quickly. Sometimes ''a still frame'' of a Wikipedia article or ''a still photo'' might communicate the idea more neutrally or succinctly than portions of freely-licensed videos could.
'''Media Content''' - I'd love it if we could somehow have more audio/video content for #Edit2015. I looked for freely-licensed video and .gifs on Wikimedia Commons, Vimeo, Internet Archive and YouTube and the first few versions of Edit2014 incorporated bits and pieces of a few works, but much of it was too busy or complicated to communicate an idea quickly. Sometimes ''a still frame'' of a Wikipedia article or ''a still photo'' might communicate the idea more neutrally or succinctly than portions of freely-licensed videos could.
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Here are a few videos I went so far as to migrate to commons
last year
while I was looking for material that might work for #Edit2014 -- hopefully you can see how ''a still frame'' of a Wikipedia article or ''a still photo'' might communicate the idea more neutrally or succinctly than portions of these freely-licensed videos could:
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For every still image you see in #Edit2014, there's probably 10 more that didn't make the final cut. It took a lot of research to find appropriate and compelling imagery.
Here are a few videos I went so far as to migrate to commons while I was looking for material that might work for #Edit2014 -- hopefully you can see how ''a still frame'' of a Wikipedia article or ''a still photo'' might communicate the idea more neutrally or succinctly than portions of these freely-licensed videos could:
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