Wikipedia:WikiProject Screencast/Screencast Factory

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We're getting ready to make some screencasts, documenting MediaWiki features, processes on Wikipedia, etc. Let's gather a few ideas here -- topics that might help new project contributors get started. Please include as much or as little detail as you like, this is a brainstorming place!

To create a simple script table, add {{subst:Template:Screencast script table}} to a page, and click save.

Scripts in development

• Status:     In progress Images: How to upload an image and place it in an article - Nihiltres
• Status:     In progress Editing basics script - Sross

Ideas for screencasts

Have a go at these yourself, or find some other people to collaborate with.

• Introduction to the projects: show somebody around Commons, Wikisource, etc. What's the purpose of the project? What's an example of a high-quality article/page? What do its contributors enjoy about it, what sort of audience are they looking to serve, and how?
• What's the process for deleting an article on (for instance) English Wikipedia?

  Briefly cover principles like notability, verifiability, neutral point of view; cover proposed deletion, speedy deletion, "articles for deletion" processes; conflicts of interest. Focus on being informative about how it works, rather than advocating "inclusionism" or "deletionism."

• outreachwiki:Life of an Article
• How to turn on the RefToolbar gadget and use it.

  Maybe a companion piece about finding quality citations, and using tools like Web Cite, Google Books, Google News search/archives, NewsBank and JStor (maybe via your library, or here via WP:REX), etc. etc.

  many libraries have developed similar tutorials that could be adapted for things like this; see [1]

• How to upload an image

  (It may be prudent to delay this one until the new upload system is essentially ready, lest it quickly become obsolete)

  • Licensing tutorial? (to cover at least GFDL, CC, and PD?)
  • How to place an image in an article
• How to start a new article
• How to add a reference into a Wikipedia article
• How to request deletion/non-deletion/undeletion for an article
• Adapt chapters/sections of the book Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual to screencast format (the book has a number of step-by-step tutorials).
• basic how-to-edit a section tutorial would be useful -- very quickly, like a 30 second tutorial, that could be played in settings where you don't have time to get into the details -- like conference booths, talks, etc.

  I really like this idea, not only because these clips would be useful per se but because they could be reused in other contexts. The economy of reuse is not to be underestimated in the Wikimedian context of CC-BY-SA! Nihiltres 16:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

• using the special characters bar/adding formatting
• finding a wikiproject on a topic you're interested in / finding stuff to do
• How articles get on the Main Page.

  Who writes them, what the process is, how they are reviewed, what they are checked for, issues about expertise and the (usually) amateurs who write them. And especially: they don't get there unless they are written, copy edited, and reviewed.

• Maybe a good starting point: Intro to WikiProject Screencast
• "What is this 'notability' of which you speak?"
• "How to use a watchlist."
• To tell that there are more than 270 + language Wikipedias.
• Here are the step-by-step tutorials in the book Wikipedia:The Missing Manual
  • Starting, Previewing, and Saving Your Edit
  • Adding an External Link
  • Creating a Simple Footnote
  • Creating a New Account
  • Creating Your User Page
  • Creating Your Personal Sandbox
  • Creating a New Article
  • Doing an Undo
  • Doing a Revert
  • Posting a Warning on a User Talk Page
  • Archiving user talk page content
  • Creating a daughter article
  • Uploading an Image to the Commons
  • Adding Categories to an Image Page at the Commons
  • Creating a User Account at the Commons
  • Creating a new redirect page
  • Fixing Category Links that Come From Templates
  • Nominating an article for speedy deletion
  • Making a "PROD" nomination
  • Nominating an article at AFD
  • Changing your signature
  • Changing the way that time is displayed
  • Customizing Wikipedia by Adding a Script
• New User-Account guide - what features are now available to them. Possibly to be embedded at MediaWiki:Welcomecreation. (See Welcome2WP page 5, for ideas)

Screen Sprint screencasts

• Scripts

  Status:     Done /Script 0: Planning, Production, Upload - Peregrine
  File:Screencast_demo_of_Camstudio_and_Firefogg.ogv

• Introduction

  Status:     Done /Script 1: What is a screencast? What are the ideals of the project? - iFaqeer
  File:WikiProject Screencast Script 1.ogv

• Planning a screencast

  Status:     In progress /Script 2: Establishing a purpose / audience, Writing a script - iFaqeer, John Broughton, Nihiltres

  Status:     Done /Script 3: Assembling material - Orange Mike, iFaqeer
  On YouTube / On Commons Needs audio

• Tools needed (tied to page about different platforms)

  Status:     Done /Script 4: Possible hardware and software - Robert, AB
  File:Hardware and software for sceencasting.ogv

• Pre-production

  Status:     In progress /Script 5: Physical environment, testing equipment, simplifying -- Quiddity

• Production

  Status:     Done /Script 6: Overview - HJ Mitchell, Peregrine
  File:CamsStudio demo.ogv

  Status:     Not started /Script 7: Sort-of-advanced topics

• Post-production

  Status:     In progress /Script 8: Encoding and testing --Aude

  need to re-record audio, then post. --Aude (talk) 23:23, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

  Status:     Done /Script 9: Uploading and placement - Ryan
  File:WikiProject Screencast Script 9.ogv

• Advanced

  Status:     In progress /Script 10: Know-it-all uber expert super fancy fun time haz - --iFaqeer

• Collaboration

  Status:     In progress /Script 11: Collaboration --Ryan

Completed screencasts - video and script

See thumbnails and further details at our Gallery page.

• How to add an image – (September 2010)
• How to use bold and italics – (September 2010)
• How to link text – (September 2010)
• How to start a sandbox article – (September 2010) (script)