2024:Program/Wikipedia and public television - a match made in heaven?
Session title: Wikipedia and public television - a match made in heaven?
- Session type: Roundtable
- Track: Contributor/Community Engagement
- Language: en
More and more educational clips from German public service broadcasters are making their way into Wikipedia, improving hundreds of articles and raking in tens of millions of views. This success story would not have been possible without the work of community project “Wiki Loves Broadcast” which helps the broadcasters to identify suitable content for Creative Commons licensing and is responsible for integrating relevant videos into Wikipedia articles. In this session, Wiki Loves Broadcast and Wikimedia Deutschland showcase their work and invite the international Wikipedia community to join a growing effort to bring publicly funded audiovisual content into Wikipedia.
Description
[edit | edit source]Educational content from public broadcasters should be permanently available online under a free license like CC BY-SA 4.0. It is all of us who fund this content through our license fees or taxes, so we should all be allowed to freely use it. This helps fulfill the mission of the broadcasters, aids teachers and students, and benefits Wikipedia. The German-speaking Wikipedia community (“Wiki Loves Broadcast”) and Wikimedia Deutschland have been working to make this a reality for over five years.
In consequence, public broadcasters in Germany are now blazing the trail on the usage of Creative Commons licensing. Once uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and integrated into relevant articles, these video clips - on subjects like the construction of the Taj Mahal, the US voting system or the ancient city of Angkor Wat - have improved hundreds of articles and continue to rake in millions of monthly views on Wikipedia. This success story deserves to be shared and replicated. Wikimedia Europe, Wikimedia Switzerland and also the Wikimedia Foundation have already implemented or begun to implement similar projects. After all, the more public broadcasters join in, the more Wikipedia versions will benefit from high quality educational content. Crucially, this requires a solid community foundation to interface with broadcasters and be responsible for integrating relevant content.
In this session, Wiki Loves Broadcast and Wikimedia Deutschland will showcase how they convinced public service broadcasters to think of Wikipedia as a third-party platform and invite the international Wikipedia community to join a growing effort to bring publicly funded audiovisual content into Wikipedia.
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZJ9OtiQxH8&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=3839
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
Wiki Loves Broadcast is quite literally part of a collaboration of and for the open that is a collaboration between public service broadcasting, the Wikipedia community, and Wikimedia Chapters with the goal to provide open educational content to Wikipedia and the world. Every stakeholder in this collaboration is absolutely crucial in ensuring that publicly funded audiovisual content is released under a Creative Commons license. As Wiki Loves Broadcast grows more international, this collaboration also increasingly involves a multitude of chapters, such as Wikimedia Europa or Wikimedia Switzerland, as well as the Wikimedia Foundation and different language communities in the Wikimedia movement.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
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[edit | edit source]Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Jan-David Franke
- As Policy Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland, Jan-David Franke has been advocating for the release of public broadcasting content under a free Creative Commons license since 2022 and has been overseeing key collaborations between Wikimedia Deutschland, Wiki Loves Broadcast and public service broadcasters in Germany and beyond. In that role, he has also been the chief liaison with the community project “Wiki Loves Broadcast” as well as Wikimedia Europe and the Wikimedia Foundation on the subject.
- He is also Wikimedia Deutschland's representative in the "Bündnis F5" (a digital civil society alliance with Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, AlgorithmWatch, Reporters without Borders and Open Knowledge Foundation), "Bits & Bäume" (a movement at the intersection of the digital and sustainability), and the "Bündnis Transparenzgesetz" (a joint civil society effort to bring about a modern transparency law in Germany).
- Sadik Shahadu
- A certified Wikipedia trainer and Brand Ambassador for Curationist.org. I am also the executive director and co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and a steering committee member of the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub.
- Janosh Becker
- Janosh (username: New York-air) has been active on Wikipedia since 2017. He was initially a member of Jungwikipedianer, a German-language community group of young Wikipedia authors. Over time, he took on more administrative tasks in this area and, having previously been active in the field of aviation, is now increasingly involved in recruiting new authors.
- He has also been active in the Wiki Loves Broadcast project in the German-speaking community for several years. Since last year, he has been responsible for the internationalization of the project within the project team. Janosh has recently gained some experience in giving workshops on Wikipedia and has also completed a train-the-trainer course in this context.