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

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...)