Wikipedia:WikiProject Screencast/Intro
How about a screencast to introduce WikiProject Screencast?
Script
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| Audio | Visual |
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| WikiProject Screencast: Helping our readers and content contributors understand Wikipedia. | |
| Screencasts: You've seen plenty of them. There are screencasts describing software tools, demonstrating how to build web pages, explaining how to fill out forms.
| Screen captures of a few screencasts (not specific to Wikimedia) | |
| In this screencast, we want to tell you why we think screencasting could be a transformative tool for Wikipedia outreach and education.
| 200pxAny copyright concerns about this image? If so, how to find Matroshka dolls that are copyleft/PD? | |
| Screencasting is a new medium: there are numerous tools, with numerous strengths and weaknesses; and there are many different creative approaches
| Screen shots of a few tools—tricky to think how to do this while minimizing copyright/trademark concerns | |
| Those unfamiliar with Wikipedia—whether their interest is in reading or contributing -- have all kinds of questions.
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(Use some fun graphic treatment on these quotes) | |
| We have lots of text documentation…
| Several policy pages | |
| …but as the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
| Chinese proverb image from [http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/research/web/words/27.gif 1927 ad] (or see A picture is worth a thousand words)Seems likely this is in the public domain, but how to establish this? Quiddity asked at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#1927 Advertisement | |
| How many words could a screencast be worth?
| 10,000? | |
| Let's figure out how to show new contributors how we work, instead of telling them.
| We're just getting started… | |
| WikiProject Screencast. Let's make Wikipedia the online encyclopedia that anyone can truly edit!
| …and we hope you'll join us. | |
| Join the discussion, or just be bold and make a screencast about a part of Wikipedia!
| Discuss: |
