Videos
The original plans to record all sessions at Wikimania 2015 were not realized.
Instead, a number of individual videos recorded by attendees are listed below. Also some keynotes were recorded by Wikimania 2015 staff.
Things volunteers can help with:
- Provide more details about the sessions and speakers. Right now there is a link to the Internet Archive video page, but the entries could use a direct link to the Wikimania pages
- Provide a time code pointer as to where sessions start. Each talk is roughly 30 minutes long, but some of the titles listed below are four or six talks stacked together.
- Help side-load the video from Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons.
For video uploaders:
- Please ensure that your item on the Internet Archive has sufficient metadata. Be sure to put "wikimania" and "wikimania 2015" into the subject tags.
- If possible, upload the highest quality video to the Internet Archive. They will be deriving the file and producing other video qualities.
- Finally, ping Hydriz to have your item moved to the Wikimania videos collection.
Videos
Uploaded by attendees
| Date | Title | Status | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-17
1100–1200 |
State of Wikimedia Scholarship, Blocking IP Editing and Wikia (2 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-17
1200–1230 |
100wikidays | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-17
1400–1500 |
MOOCs and Mapwarping, EAGLE (2 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-17
1500–1530 |
Wiki Loves Earth | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-18
0930–1000 |
Video Production Tools and Community in the Wikiverse | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-18
1000–1030 |
Operationalizing Usability Testing | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-18
1100–1230 |
Searching, Structured Documents, Wiki Discussions (3 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-18
1430–1630 |
Covering Community, AI, Harassment, Wikihow (4 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
0900–1030 |
Seven Amazing Facts, Beyond VE, Headhunting (3 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
1100–1400 |
Pluricentric, Socio-technical, WikiProjectX, OTRS, Year in Video, Eng Volunteering (6 sessions) | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
1130–1200 |
Podemos! How Videos are bringing Wikimedia to the next Level | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
1200–1230 |
Different Cultures of Wikipedia | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
1230–1300 |
Video Community Coordination Roundtable | DONE | Fuzheado |
| 2015-07-19
1300–1330 |
Presentation of "Students can do more" part 1 | In Commons | AlejandroLinaresGarcia |
| 2015-07-19
1300–1330 |
Mini Documentary "Creando contenido, experiencias de aprender con Wikipedia | In Commons | Daniel Ulacia and others |
| 2015-07-19
1300–1330 |
Presentation of "Students can do more" part 2 | In Commons | AlejandroLinaresGarcia |
Uploaded by the staff
A list of official organizer videos of the main keynote talks and selected sessions are here.
| Date | Title | Status | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-06 | "We are ready" video by Wikimedia Mexico | In Commons | Wikimedia México |
| 2015-07-17 | Wikimania 15 Opening video | In Commons | Wikimedia México |
| 2016-07-19 | Patricio Lorente's speech at Closing Ceremony | In Commons | Wikimedia México |
| 2016-07-19 | Patricio Lorente's speech at Closing Ceremony (translated to Spanish) | In Commons | Wikimedia México |
| 2016-07-4 | Wikimania 15 Documentary | In Commons | Wikimedia México |
Details
Video is a huge undertaking. It's helped by the creation of the Schnittserver project by Manuel Schneider that assists in transcoding to WebM and alternative formats, but here are some numbers:
A recording of six sessions of Wikimania (3 hours) on a consumer camcorder results in a 31 Gbyte AVCHD (MPEG-4) file recorded at 1920×1080 resolution. This is recorded on an SD card. Even a fairly fast one has a speed of 30 Mbytes/second, which takes about 18 minutes to transfer from card to a hard drive.
For more reasonable handling, this large 1080p file is downsampled and exported via Apple Quicktime to 720p (1280×720) with greater compression (requiring about a half hour of processing time) and yields a 9.8 Gbyte file. Even with a speedy Internet connection of 25 Mbits/second upload, it takes about an hour to transfer to a remote server like Schnittserver. Then, the transcoding of this to WebM format on Schnittserver takes about 8–10 hours. The video eventually winds up on the Internet Archive in multiple formats, after which, the video can be side-loaded into Wikimedia Commons. Phew!
The conclusion: making these videos available is a slower than real time process, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2×–4× more than real time. Video requires decent recording hardware, disk space, processor speed, time and Internet bandwidth. Additionally, it is not one-click and requires a lot of knowledge about tools and the technical specs. The Schnittserver project makes it a lot simpler for the transcoding, but it's still very far from being a one-click publishing system.