Wikipedia:Global Lives

The Global Lives Project is a non-profit effort to generate freely licensed video of people around the world in their everyday lives. This page will serve to coordinate efforts to explore how the Global Lives Project's content can be used to improve Wikipedia content.

Background/resources

 * Information on putting video on Wikipedia: WP:VIDEO
 * http://www.videoonwikipedia.com/

Editing Wikipedia

 * Create an account. Special:UserLogin/signup (Let's discuss how to choose an account name before forging ahead.)
 * Add some information about yourself on your user page. If you're a Deloitte employee, Global Lives Project staff or board member, etc., disclose that information. This is very free-form, there is no formula -- be yourself!
 * Engage in discussion -- always! Today, we will be focusing our efforts primarily on talking about improving Wikipedia content; building consensus is a very important part of being effective in improving Wikipedia.

Writing a good Wikipedia article
(some links to support improving Global Lives Project)
 * Criteria for a "good article": Good_article_criteria
 * Lists of high quality Wikipedia articles: WP:GA, WP:FA

Possible articles to work on

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Lives_Project
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara_Empire
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara_Architecture
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forró -Israel clip 04b second half of video around 9 minutes in. Clip shows israel's dad playing forro music.  Need to edit video and suggest for upload. -Davidforimpact (talk) 21:38, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Notes on existing talk pages proposing to include Global Lives Project video: -useful to have video added to Commemoration section of the article -useful to have video added to general overview section of the article showing Manakish chef making and serving Manakish, topped with thyme -useful to have video added to Basic Education section of the article showing children in a classroom in Lebanon. -useful to add video of a child using the Drbukh and demonstrating the instrument.
 * Tattoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tattoo
 * Postcard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Postcard#Add_video_of_postcard_salesman.3F
 * Farmer's Market (caption - Bargaining for produce at a rural Chinese farmer's market): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Farmers%27_market#Suggestion_for_new_country_section_and_video_footage_of_a_farmer.27s_market
 * Broom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Broom#Adding_video_content
 * Convenience store: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Convenience_store
 * Chives (caption - Cleaning and preparing chives for cooking): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chives#Suggestion_for_video_footage_of_cleaning_chives
 * Wok (caption - Boiling noodles in a Chinese wok): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wok#Suggestion_for_video_of_cooking_noodles_in_a_wok
 * PAGES IDENTIFIED by Indu Murali (talk) 21:37, 8 June 2012 (UTC) FOR ADDING GLP VIDEO:
 * Nakba Day
 * Manakish
 * Education in Lebanon
 * Drbukh page in Arabic

Types of articles that could benefit from Global Lives Project videos:
 * Languages
 * Places (countries, cities, towns, etc.)
 * Activities

Articles of interest by Global Lives participant:
 * Zhanna Dosmailova - Vannovka, Kazakhstan (October, 2009)
 * Kick scooter
 * Child art
 * Bedtime story


 * Jamila Jad - Beirut, Lebanon (May 15, 2009)
 * Shatila


 * Dusan Lazic - Vojka, Serbia (April, 2009)
 * Beeswax
 * Beekeeping


 * Muttu Kumar - Hampi, India (March 7, 2009)
 * Hampi
 * Tour guide


 * Dadah - Sarimukti Village, Indonesia (October 2008)


 * Kai Liu - Anren, China (September 2008)
 * Mahjong


 * Rumi Nagashima - Tokyo, Japan (July 2007)
 * Disability rights movement
 * Girl Scouts of Japan


 * Israel Feliciano - São Paulo, Brazil (May 21, 2006)


 * James Bullock - San Francisco, USA (November 17, 2004)
 * Cable car (railway)

Participants in service day

 * Pete (talk) 21:02, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * ClaireRedwood (talk) 21:19, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Jordan Katz Jordanhkatz (talk) 21:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Davidforimpact (talk) 21:21, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Fefe Gong FefeGong (talk) 21:22, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sarath Sarathtantravahi (talk) 21:23, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Peter Hogue (talk) 21:28, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Indu Murali (talk) 21:30, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Rycurious (talk) 21:34, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * David (talk) 21:49, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delphinejacquin (talk) 22:25, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Scraser (talk) 17:42, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Daniel Chein Dchein (talk) 23:02, 15 June 2012 (UTC)