Video tutorials

See also outreach:Instructional videos

Video tutorials make learning much easier than printed material or online help pages. We will use this effect by producing a number of videos demonstrating the basics of Wikipedia editing and increasing the public understanding of Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

We distinguish between two sorts of video tutorials:

• Guided tours, designed to raise the public understanding of Wikipedia and Wikimedia as well as to encourage people to view Wikipedia as friendly. All guided tours will be presented by moderators in order to appear more trustworthy, friendly and encouraging.

• How-to videos, aimed at explaining basic features of the Wikipedia interface. How-to videos will be produced as screencasts with a speaker explaining every single step.

• Guided tour #1: Editing Wikipedia is easy (working title)

• Status: production underway (shooting on November 19, 2008 in Hamburg)
• Production: Living Color, Hamburg
• Release: January 2009
• Script: Video tutorials/Guided tour script 1 (old version)

• Guided tour #2: Why does Wikipedia work even though anyone can edit it? (working title)

• Status: production underway (shooting on November 19, 2008 in Hamburg)
• Production: Living Color, Hamburg
• Release: January 2009
• Script: Video tutorials/Guided tour script 2 (old version)

• Guided tour #3: What you should know about Wikimedia – the organization behind Wikipedia (working title)

• Guided tour #4: What motivates Wikipedians to edit / the volunteers behind Wikipedia (working title)

• How-to #1: How to create a user account (working title)

• How-to #2: The basics of Wiki markup (working title)

• How-to #3: How to upload images (working title)

• How-to #4: How to find information about a certain topic on Wikipedia (working title)

• How-to #5: Where do I find help? Where may I ask questions about Wikipedia? What means …? (working title)

• Please add more

Wikis in plain English

• Wikis in Plain English – Introduction to Wikis (English)

Moderated / Guided Tours

• Tuoreet muutokset -videoteosten sarja – Seven videos (Finnish)
• Wie glaubwürdig ist Wikipedia – Can you trust Wikipedia? Video for Austrian pupils (German)

Screencasts / How-to's

• Using Video to Recruit New Wikipedia Editors (April 2nd, 2010)
• La syntaxe sur Mediawiki – Tutoriel Wikimédia – How-to on Wiki markup (French)
• Wiki editing tutorial – Introduction to editing Wikiversity (English)
• Video conversion tutorials from ifunia - Articles and How-to Tutorials on video conversion and skills (English)
• Wiki tutorial: Page creation – How to create a new page on a MediaWiki Wiki (English)
• Add and edit pages with Media Wiki (English)
• Mediawiki - Pictures in articles – How to add Commons pictures to Wikipedia or Wikibooks (Icelandic)
• Wikipedia for beginners (in Icelandic) – Basic introduction (Icelandic)
• Uploading a file – How to upload pictures to MediaWiki Wikis (English)
• Printing books from Wikibooks (English)
• Mike.lifeguard's screencasts: handling spam (English)
• Screencasts by Wikimedia Deutschland explaining how to edit Wikipedia (in German, 2012).

Satire

• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki (Editing Wetpaint is just click-and-type)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 2 (Text and static images vs. videos and slideshows)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 3 (Wiki markup vs. click-and-type)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 4 (Getting banned by administrators)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 5 (Setting up and administrating a Wiki)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 6 (Visual appearance of Wikis)
• Mac vs PC Parody -- Wiki 7 (Wikis are made for nerds)

• Announcement (Foundation-l) – Frank Schulenburg announcing the making-of video and explaining the general idea behind Wikimedia's video tutorial production.
• The idea behind guided tours (Foundation-l) – Frank Schulenburg explaining more in-depth the idea behind the first two guided tour videos.