Calling all vidders!

[brownbetty]

In order to get the widest possible fan contribution, we'd like to make editing fanlore as non-threatening as possible, and get our help resources up to snuff. To that end, we're attempting to get some screencasts made. Now, I can record a screencast, but when it comes to editing out all the pauses and jittering, and speeding up the typey-bits to make it not annoying to watch, I admit, I'm not so hot.

However, it occurs to me that this should be a fairly trivial exercise for some of the amazing vidders I know we have in the fan community.

We would like screencasts on, at minimum the two following subjects:

1) Getting a fanlore account! This is the first hurdle for new editors. A screencast should walk the viewer through getting an account, and let them know how to set up their OpenID, should they wish to add that.

2) Editing a new article! Want to start a new article? How do you do that? How do you make a wiki link, and add headings?

Additionally, if screencasts include a voice component, subtitles would be awesome, and make them more accessible.

If you'd like to make a screencast, or help with one, or suggest other topics that could be usefully screencast, please let me know!

Comments

OT question, still fanlore interface related though

[ratcreature]

This is OT for the vidding/screencast stuff (great idea for tutorials though!), but is there a reason your fanlore edits are always marked as "bot" (and thus not listed in the default setting for Recent Edits)? I like to browse the Recent Edits page, but didn't see your edits on pages I watched (and was thus notified had changed) appear there, so I looked what caused this. I thought only automatic tasks were marked as "bot"? Yours were discussion and manual edits. I find that kind of confusing?

Re: OT question, still fanlore interface related though

[brownbetty]

That is a good question! It was set up that way by our previous committee chair (... who I do not recall which name she was using there so vagueness so as not to out) who brought quite a bit of wiki experience, so I presume there was a reason, but I am really not sure what it might be.

I think I can remove myself from bot, though, and see what I suddenly can't do.

Re: OT question, still fanlore interface related though

[ratcreature]

Ah. Fanlore is the first wiki I'm participating in, so I wouldn't know how common this. I guess I can see how the bot label might be useful for all kinds of admin/gardener tasks for some arcane wiki reason, I'm just not sure that "regular" edits that someone does as a person rather than in an administrative role so to speak should be marked as "bot".

Re: OT question, still fanlore interface related though

[brownbetty]

aaaand I can't leave the bot group, because I'm not in it. Perhaps one of the administrative roles assigned to me shares bot permissions?

I would really rather not be marked as a bot myself, because I can't see my edits. :(

Re: OT question, still fanlore interface related though

[lian]

yeah, I remarked on that issue here -- Hope removed my (and the other gardeners?) bot status back then, so maybe there's a way to remove it from the admin role? (sorry, not very helpful...)

[lim]

I don't have time to record one but sure, I can do the post if that's needed. Mark me down for one.

[cesperanza]

Oooh ooh, mr. kotter! There's a fabulous screencast program called, I think, "I show U" which is easy peasy. I'm insane at the moment but would be totally willing once grades go in Monday to do some screencasting of myself Fanloring.

Oh, put that way it sounds so so dirty. <3

[brownbetty]

That would be super-fabulous. I know there are various free screencast programs, and I tried making one myself, and then I played it back and I was like "...oh, self."

and then I thought, wait a second, maybe there are people who are good at this!