How about a screencast to introduce WikiProject Screencast?
Script
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| <silence for title screen> | WikiProject Screencast: Helping our readers and content contributors understand Wikipedia. |
| Screencasts: You've seen plenty of them. There are screencasts describing software tools, demonstrating how to build web pages, explaining how to fill out forms. | Screen captures of a few screencasts (not specific to Wikimedia) |
| In this screencast, we want to tell you why we think screencasting could be a transformative tool for Wikipedia outreach and education. |  [1]
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| Screencasting is a new medium: there are numerous tools, with numerous strengths and weaknesses; and there are many different creative approaches | Screen shots of a few tools—tricky to think how to do this while minimizing copyright/trademark concerns |
| Those unfamiliar with Wikipedia—whether their interest is in reading or contributing -- have all kinds of questions. |
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| We have lots of text documentation… | Several policy pages |
| …but as the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." | Chinese proverb image from 1927 ad (or see A picture is worth a thousand words)[2] |
| How many words could a screencast be worth? | 10,000? 1,000,000? 92,674,395,332.0007??! |
| Let's figure out how to show new contributors how we work, instead of telling them. | We're just getting started… |
| WikiProject Screencast. Let's make Wikipedia the online encyclopedia that anyone can truly edit! | …and we hope you'll join us. |
| Join the discussion, or just be bold and make a screencast about a part of Wikipedia! | Discuss: [[WT:SCREENCAST]] or Get started: [[WP:SCREENCAST/START]] |
Notes
edit- ^ Any copyright concerns about this image? If so, how to find Matroshka dolls that are copyleft/PD?
- ^ Seems likely this is in the public domain, but how to establish this? Quiddity asked at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions#1927 Advertisement