Grants:Project/Rapid/Pratik/VideoWiki 2019/Report

Draft report

This is a draft of a grant report for a grant funded for fiscal year 2017-18. Please do not respond or comment on it just yet: it's not yet ready for review. To read the approved grant submission, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Pratik/VideoWiki 2019.

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes, we met our original project goals, and are more than happy with the progress we made since the first grant.

After talking to Wikipedians and getting their feedback, we realized that there was a learning curve in using VideoWiki. To mitigate this, we built an "all-on Wikipedia" approach where a Wikipedian can edit the script/media on a wiki-page itself, and the video can be auto-generated by VideoWiki from the content on the wiki-script. Since the script-writing and media edition happens on the wiki-page itself, the learning curve required is low as Wikipedians are familiar with editing wiki pages. This was the single biggest feature as we had to re-vamp the entire structure of VideoWiki.

Apart from the above-mentioned restructuring, we have developed key features such as supporting multiple images/videos on each slide, the ability to translate videos in languages which do not have a TTS engine, etc.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Number of major features in pipeline completed: 3	5 major features
Number of languages available in: 4	8

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?
• What did not work so well?
• What would you do differently next time?

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No, we do not have any remaining grant funds.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

We demo-ed, and spoke about VideoWiki in Wikimania 2019, Stockholm,