2019:Multimedia knowledge/Behind the scenes of the Odia Wikipedia how-to video tutorials

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Multimedia knowledge/Behind the scenes of the Odia Wikipedia how-to video tutorials

Ebadi · Friday 13:00 - 13:30

Title

Behind the scenes of the Odia Wikipedia how-to video tutorials

Description

Most Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects have a very little focus on building educational content for new contributors. It's time to recognize the lack of such resources as a movement-level gap that affects bringing new blood in the community. Though simply having the user guides does not solve the issues of sustainability of new editors, it is a good starting point.

The Odia Wikimedians User Group started working shyly on a project to create video tutorials for the new editors. Though providing good quality user guide was always a focus for the community since the very beginning, video tutorials were never given too much of importance and hence there were only a handful of those because of the interest of a few Wikipedians.

The idea to create some good quality short video tutorials was discussed in 2016 and then later got emphasized by a relatively new Wikipedian User:Soumendrak in early 2019. The project is shaping up with an emphasis on storytelling and not just a guide with on-screen action. People, after all, are in the core of the Wikimedia movement.

Session outcomes

At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:

Participants will get to learn about the process of creating educational resources (particularly OERs) for their own communities—
- Ideation,
- Brainstorming to create script,
- Talent hunt,
- Recording/filming,
- Post-production,
- Release and
- Promotion
How to incorporate storytelling while dealing with technology in the context of creating multimedia OERs for Wikimedians
How to make your work future-proof

Session leader(s)

Subhashish Panigrahi
Soumendra Kumar Sahoo

Relationship to the theme

This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:

Goal 4: Quality Education (direct)
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth (indirect)
Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities (direct)
Goal 17: Partnerships For The Goals (indirect)

Session type

The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:

Technology-based training

Requirements

The session will work best with these conditions:

Room:

Projector and projection screen/blank wall; decent internet for a Q&A session in case the presenter is presenting remotely

Audience:

20-50

Recording:

Yes

Additional material

Tutorial on "Why more online Odia content is required" (in Odia). Read below for adaptation into your language. Watch/download from Wiki Commons. (Youtube).

Blogs/reports

Wikimania 2019: Digital Support Librarian Lauren Smith reports on her first-time attendance at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden. 21 August 2019

Interest

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