Could these videos be posted to YouTube? In a recent talk <https://vimeo.com/album/5793528>, internet researcher danah boyd makes the observation (around minute 15) that one of the problems with conspiracy propagation in YouTube is that nobody generally bothers to produce response videos to counteract disinformation narratives. So people who use YouTube to get their "news" (<-- a HUGE number of younger internet users) are never exposed to the truth around these subjects.
Many of us are aware that last year YouTube tried, somewhat problematically, to link to Wikipedia articles in an attempt to counter disinformation. But it would be even more useful to* insert factual information into the YouTube ecosystem itself*. It seems to me that VideoWiki tool gives our Movement a powerful new tool to counter disinformation in a more timely manner. Imagine a 4 minute video that pulls from multiple Wikipedia articles and other WM data sources and which is designed to counter, say, a new viral anti-vaxx video in a concise and engaging way. Before VideoWiki, this would have been pretty labor-intensive to create. With VideoWiki, it seems like we're close to being able to develop this kind of content in a much more timely manner. But to be effective, the video needs to reach the intended audience. The best way to do that is to post it to YouTube, where that audience is. Hence my opening question. What do people think? Jonathan On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 5:47 PM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes definitely possible for other languages. It currently works in Hindi, > Spanish, French, and English. > > Here is an example of one in Hindi > > https://videowiki.wmflabs.org/hi/videowiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A5?wikiSource=https://hi.wikipedia.org > > James > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 8:47 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < > galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Is it possible to add other languages if we have a free TTS system? > > ________________________________ > > From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of > > Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 4:10 PM > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Video Wiki > > > > Brilliant. Long in the making, much needed. > > > > And for branding, the website devoted to this should be called Wikipedia > > Media... > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:55 AM James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hey All > > > > > > We have a new project called Video Wiki > > > <https://videowiki.wmflabs.org/en> which > > > allows: > > > > > > 1. The easy creation of videos from scripts from Wikipedia and > images > > / > > > short video segments from Commons > > > 2. Scripts can have inline references and the text of the script > with > > > references end up in the captions of the video with references. > These > > > captions can be turned on and off > > > 3. At the end of the video it automatically adds > > > 1. the license for the text (CC BY SA license) > > > 2. attribution of those who have edited the scripts > > > 3. all the metadata for the references supporting the scripts > > > 4. The final video version on Commons lists the files that the video > > is > > > derived from > > > 5. Attribution for the images is automatically added at the bottom > of > > > each image > > > > > > > > > Have started a discussion here on Wikipedia and would appreciate > peoples > > > thoughts. Will be drafting a formal RfC about the use of such videos > > > eventually. > > > > > > > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Video_Wiki > > > > > > > > > -- > > > James Heilman > > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > -- > > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 > 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Jonathan T. 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