User:VGrigas (WMF)/Edit2015



THANK YOU EVERYONE! Above is the final video, please feel free to share it! VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hello!

This page functions as a brainstorming space for the #Edit2015 Wikipedia Year-in-Review video. Click here to jump to the section where you can add your ideas.



Let's Collaborate
Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation 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 here. This year, we're opening up the idea development and pre-production process of making a video for 2015 to everyone. This is an opportunity for you to help shape the narrative of the events of 2015.

Last year's video was largely made by myself and 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.

Here's the plan
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 Google Zeitgeist Year In Search) you'll see how each will spend 5 seconds on a topic and then jump to the next.

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.

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 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).

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 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:
 * Has the event made it to the international press or wide regional press?
 * Does the event have corresponding view or edit counts?
 * Do we have cc imagery for the event (on commons or elsewhere)?
 * Was there a special circumstance about this event per Wikimedia projects?
 * Does this illustrate some aspect of Wikimedia that the public should know?
 * Is the media beautiful?
 * Does the Wikimedia Foundation legal team approve of the media?
 * 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.

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
 * Production (assemble the footage): October 1st - November 15th
 * Post-Production (lock all the details): November 15th - December 1st
 * Distribution (captions and translations, thumbnails, text copy, uploading, and any last-minute edits): December 1st - December 15th

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 - There are a few sources for freely-licensed imagery that we can use for #Edit 2015: Still imagery, Video imagery, Wikimedia project pages, Audio, and imagery we make ourselves. 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 I know there are many more I could have used. The first few versions of #Edit2014 incorporated more video than the final cut did, but much was cut out because 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.

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:

I'm very optimistic that this will be a fruitful initiative. I can't wait to see all the usernames of everyone who contributes. Please share this link with your friends. Let's collaborate and tell the story of Wikipedia and 2015 together.

Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Foundation Storyteller and Video Producer

Criteria
These are some basic criteria I made to guide what content got into #Edit2014, I think they can be reused this year:
 * Has the event made it to the international press or wide regional press?
 * Does the event have corresponding view or edit counts?
 * Do we have cc imagery for the event (on commons or elsewhere)?
 * Was there a special circumstance about this event per Wikimedia projects?
 * Does this illustrate some aspect of Wikimedia that the public should know?
 * Is the media beautiful?
 * Does the Wikimedia Foundation legal team approve of the media?
 * Do we have some media and news from every major region of the world?

Format

 * Between 1-4 minutes (ideally close to 90 seconds)
 * As multi-lingual as possible
 * Representative of world news events
 * Demonstrates unique experience of using Wikipedia (rabbitholes of knowledge)
 * Must hold viewer's attention

Analysis of other videos

 * Most year-in-review videos cover about 15 to 20 topics, as micro-stories, a few short video clips or still images to tell a story and then its on to the next short set of clips or still images.

This years' video

 * Maybe tell more with talk pages, or history pages?

Possible Images, Topics, Etc.
PLEASE FILL THIS IN!

January

 * Eurasian Economic Union
 * Mamasapano clash

March

 * March 2015 New England cold wave
 * Fires in South Africa
 * Wikimedia v. NSA
 * Bardo National Museum
 * Germanwings Flight 9525
 * Solar eclipse of March 20, 2015
 * Israeli legislative election, 2015
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacexphotos
 * Nigerian general election, 2015
 * French departmental elections, 2015
 * 2015 military intervention in Yemen
 * Kraft Heinz Company
 * India's Daughter
 * Dawn (spacecraft)
 * Cyclone Pam
 * March 5–8 – The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

April

 * Garissa University College attack
 * Comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program
 * [[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|wow]]
 * 2015 Cricket World Cup
 * Uzbekistani presidential election, 2015
 * Sinking of the Dalniy Vostok
 * https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лесные_пожары_в_Сибири_(2015)
 * April 2015 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks
 * Lomekwi 3
 * Grant Shapps
 * L0 Series
 * 2015 Boston Marathon
 * Mohamed Morsi
 * 2015 Nepal earthquake
 * Bali Nine
 * Sudanese general election, 2015
 * 2015 Paris-Roubaix (see also UCI Europe Tour 2015 for other podiums, and this for june.)
 * or United States–Cuban Thaw
 * Caitlyn Jenner

May
This one is a good rabbithole!  Agood shot to migrate
 * Opah
 * Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia
 * Lokiarchaeota
 * United Kingdom general election, 2015
 * Archaeornithura
 * 
 * 
 * Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
 * MESSENGER
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015
 * https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83#.D9.85.D8.AD.D8.A7.D9.83.D9.85.D8.A9_.D9.85.D8.A8.D8.A7.D8.B1.D9.83
 * Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao
 * 2015 Nepal earthquake II
 * 2015 Burundian unrest
 * Asia's Next Top Model (cycle 3)
 * AOL
 * Tadmur offensive (2015), Battle of Ramadi (2014–15)
 * 2015 IIHF World Championship Final
 * Forex scandal
 * 2015 Burundian coup d'état attempt
 * Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015
 * 2015 India heat wave
 * 2015 Indian Premier League Final
 * Måns Zelmerlöw
 * 2015 Monaco Grand Prix
 * 2015 FIFA corruption case
 * Polish presidential election, 2015
 * Saiga antelope
 * Same-sex_marriage_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
 * MERS outbreak in Eastern Asia (namely in South Korea)

June

 * Turkish general election, June 2015
 * 2015 Charleston, South Carolina shooting
 * Sinking of Dong Fang Zhi Xing
 * 2015 Tbilisi flood
 * Lychee and Dog Meat Festival
 * Manifestaciones en Ecuador de 2015
 * 2015 Chinese stock market crash
 * Samantha Cristoforetti (for Longest single flight by a woman)
 * 2015 Kuwait Mosque Bombing and 2015 Sousse attacks

July

 * Freedom of panorama
 * Greek bailout referendum, 2015
 * New Horizons
 * Ebola vaccine
 * Kepler-452b
 * 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup (June-July)

August



 * hitchBOT
 * Temple of Baalshamin
 * 2015 Washington state wildfires
 * 2015 stock market selloff (also  2015 Chinese stock market crash)
 * 2015 Tianjin explosions

September

 * 2015 Rugby World Cup
 * Japan national rugby union team beats former champion South Africa
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Migrants_in_Hungary
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_sein_in_%C3%96sterreich
 * Swedish Wikipedia reached 2M articles
 * Homo_naledi (possible rabbithole) --> Cradle of Humankind --> World Heritage Site --> List of World Heritage in Danger --> Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL
 * Singaporean general election, 2015
 * 
 * 2015 Japanese military legislation
 * 2015 China Victory Day Parade
 * 2015 Southeast Asian haze
 * 
 * Battle of Kunduz
 * Astrosat
 * 2015 Mina stampede
 * Volkswagen emissions violations
 * September 2015 Borno State bombings
 * supermoon
 * September 2015 lunar eclipse
 * MarsNASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars

October

 * Hurricane Joaquin
 * Trans-Pacific Partnership reached agreement
 * Nobel Prize 2015: Svetlana Alexievich, Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald, William C. Campbell (scientist), Satoshi Ōmura, Tu Youyou
 * 2015 Ankara bombings
 * Mourning after the 2015 Ankara bombings (2).jpg
 * Typhoon Koppu (2015)
 * Hurricane Patricia
 * 2015_Formula_One_season
 * #FeesMustFall student protests

November

 * 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
 * Turkish general election, November 2015
 * November 2015 Paris attacks

Deaths in 2015
See also d:Wikidata:Database reports/Recent deaths (THIS LIST NEEDS MORE WOMEN)
 * Bob Simon
 * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (also Hindi Wikipedia page at )
 * Leonard Nimoy
 * Lee Kuan Yew
 * Manoel de Oliveira
 * Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
 * Gunther Grass
 * Sabeen Mahmud
 * Aruna Shanbaug case
 * John Forbes Nash, Jr.
 * B.B. King
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Khaled al-Asaad
 * Charb, or Cabu
 * Anita Ekberg
 * Oliver Sacks
 * Wes Craven
 * Satoru Iwata
 * Yogi Berra
 * Jules Bianchi

In fiction

 * Back_to_the_Future_Part_II

Links
Dies irae, Verdi
 * 
 * Advent chamber orchestra

New homo species to Isil destruction

 * Homo_naledi (possible rabbithole)
 * Cradle of Humankind
 * World Heritage Site
 * List of World Heritage in Danger
 * Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL

Cannes film festival to Schengen agreement

 * 2015 Cannes Film Festival
 * Dheepan
 * Right of asylum
 * Asylum in the European Union
 * Schengen Agreement

Public domain to 2015 nepal earthquake

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_public_domain
 * to Edward Munch
 * to the scream
 * to 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
 * to Volcanos (optional)
 * to Calbuco_(volcano) add to commons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_XbK1KgIo
 * to 2015 Nepal Earthquake

2

 * Campaign to Stop Killer Robots click to Autonomous Weapons
 * Military robot click the Singularity
 * Technological singularity
 * Moore's Law

3

 * 2015
 * List_of_works_of_fiction_set_in_2015
 * Back_to_the_Future_Part_II
 * Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
 * Academy Awards
 * 87th Academy Awards
 * Citizenfour
 * Edward Snowden
 * XCU Lawsuits click Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
 * Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
 * Wikimedia_Foundation_v._NSA

Art

 * Fifty Shades of Grey (film)
 * The Jinx (miniseries)
 * Mad Max: Fury Road

Weather
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2015_meteorology

Ideas

 * I think the collaboration / talk pages section should have some kind of page growth section in it?


 * Maybe we see in the browser window the URLs of other sites being copied and pasted as references or cc content?


 * Motion blur?


 * Parallax?