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| Categories | WikiProject Videowiki, Videowiki scripts |
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| Wikimedia Commons |  VideoWiki |
| Assessment | Wikipedia:WikiProject Science/Assessment |
| Articles ready for script-writing | |
| Articles | {{:Wikivoyage:VideoWiki/Script-Writing}} |
| Scripts ready for voice-Over | |
| Scripts | {{:Wikivoyage:VideoWiki/Voice-Over}} |
Welcome to WikiProject VideoWiki. We are a group of Wikivoyagers interested in working on collaboratively created videos, with the goal of bringing multimedia video summaries to Wikivoyage. While the ideas date back to before Wikimania in South Africa in 2018, this WikiProject was born in 2019. The VideoWiki tool auto-generates videos based on wiki-scripts. A detailed description of the project can be found at the Meta page.
How to create a VideoWiki script edit
A VideoWiki script looks very much like a conventional Wikivoyage article. Each section has the usual descriptive header, followed by a modest amount of text and a link to a Commons media item (image or video clip).
Every section corresponds to one segment of the generated video: the body text below the header is "spoken" by a voice synthesizer while the media item is displayed. The video generator seamlessly stitches together the segments to produce the final product. The resulting video has a slideshow-like appearance when playing segments that have still images, and a more dynamic look when playing segments that have video clips.
Procedure edit
- Create a new script page as a subpage of Wikivoyage:VideoWiki. For example, if the topic is "ears", create a page at
Wikivoyage:VideoWiki/Ears
- Add to the top of the new script page:
{{videowiki}} <!-- Punctuation in this script is used to control text-to-speech pauses. Please change punctuation only for voice control. -->
- If the script is derived from an existing article, copy and paste the introductory section from the article and note this in the edit summary. For example:
copied from [[Ear]]
- Click Publish to create the new script page, and then Edit to resume editing
- Split the script into short sections and give each section a unique, descriptive header such as
==Ear wax==
- At the bottom of each section, add a link for the image or video that is to be displayed, followed by
{{Clear}}. For example:[[File:Ear.jpg|100px|left]] {{clear}}
- The script will now look something like this:
{{videowiki}} <!-- Punctuation in this script is used to control text-to-speech pauses. Please change punctuation only for voice control. --> ==Introduction== The ear is the organ of hearing and, in mammals, balance. [[File:Ear.jpg|100px|left]] {{clear}} ==Ear wax== The skin around the ear canal contains glands that produce protective ear wax. [[File:EarWax.jpg|100px|left]] {{clear}}
- Click Publish to save the script
- Hit UPDATE to upload to Commons
- Add the video to article pages as appropriate (we suggest under the introduction). For example:
[[File:Wikipedia-VideoWiki-Ears.webm|thumb|Introduction to ears ([[Wikivoyage:VideoWiki/Ears|script]])]]
Additional functionality edit
- Custom audio track. You may create your own audio and use it in the generated video in lieu of automatically-generated, synthesized voice. To do this, use {{ReadShow}}.
- Subtitles. A subtitle is automatically created for each video segment, consisting of the body text in the associated script section. You may modify subtitles by editing the auto-generated .SRT (SubRip format) file.
Sandbox edit
You can experiment with the tool in the Wikivoyage:VideoWiki/Sandbox.
Bug reports edit
Videowiki scripts edit
Derivative and translations edit
Dengue fever edit
Simplified Dengue Commons Video (Hindi - Female)
Simplified Dengue Commons Video (Estonian)
Simplified Dengue Commons Video (Arabic)
Simplified Dengue Commons Video (Bahasa - Indonesia)
Simplified Dengue Commons Video Kannada
Simplified Dengue Commons Video Tulu
Simplified Dengue Commons Video Gujrati
Older versions edit
Members edit
Add yourself if interested!
Developers edit
Press coverage edit
- Slate Aug 29th, 2019 VideoWiki Challenges Wikipedia’s Traditional Text Focus