Wikipedia:WikiTV

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WikiTV or WikiTelevision is the name of several audiovisual WikiProjects aiming to produce video and streaming media for and about Wikimedia projects. The first ideas were published in 2005 on Meta by user Väsk.[https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WikiTV&oldid=111006 m:WikiTV (revision of 21 March 2005)] For the 2010 Wikimania, user Deproduction entered a submission about an open media project by that name.[https://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Submissions/WikiTV:_the_Open_Media_Project&oldid=7522 wm2010:Submissions/WikiTV: the Open Media Project (revision of 17 May 2010)] In 2011, user 80686 started the German WikiTV project prior to the WikiConvention in Nuremberg.[https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiTV&oldid=93439956 de:Wikipedia:WikiTV (revision of 9 September 2011)] Meanwhile, a lot of material has been produced and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

In 2012 the community TV LaTele.Cat based in Barcelona (Spain) launched [http://latele.cat/wikitele The WIKITV] a platform to allow activists to upload and share their videos with LaTele - which would later be broadcasted on the channel 37 in Barcelona and promoted on social media.

Next big thing: Wikimania 2014

The preparation for video production from the Wikimania 2014 has been started and all Wikipedians are welcome to participate at the collaboration page wm2014:Videos.

Project pages

German & Austrian broadcasting

On 28 January 2013, the Austrian and Bavarian public broadcasting networks ORF and BR started a WikiTV series in their joint 24/7 channel BR-alpha.[http://goldenermedienpimmel.de/wiki-tv-wissen-verstehen/ Wiki-TV – Wissen verstehen (in German, 2. Dezember 2013)], retrieved 2 April 2014 In these series they publish talks with Wikipedia contributors about topics considered relevant for society.[http://www.atube.at/alpha/index.php?format=20 WikiTV on ORFalpha/BRalpha (German)] List of WikiTV contents, retrieved 2 April 2014

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Participants

Please add your signature and skills below if you're interested in joining the production of WikTV.

  1. --Psubhashish (talk) 15:26, 23 July 2014 (UTC) (Interviewer for WikipediansSpeak, OpenSpeaks)
  2. your name here

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