Grants:PEG/Jackson Peebles/Video and Interactive Tutorials

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This submission to the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program was funded in the fiscal year 2012-13. This is a grant to an individual.

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Basic information

Grant details

Official project name: Video and Interactive Tutorials for Popular Wikipedia Features and Tools
Project start date (include month, day, and year): 1 April 2013
Project completion date (include month, day, and year): 1 October 2013
Please describe this project in 1 - 2 sentences: The requestee plans to use screen capture software to author video tutorials with potential interactivity, including, but not limited to quizzes (self-checks), for certain Wikipedia tools and processes (primarily regarding software-assisted editing and the patrol/anti-vandalism process, but the requestee is open to community input for tutorial topics). These videos will be appropriately licensed and published on Commons. This proposal has been discussed at length on a flow funder individual portal and in a subsequent request, but has since been determined to be more appropriate for a general grant request.

Financial details

Currency requested (you must specify a currency): USD
Amount requested in currency requested: USD 579.39
Equivalent amount in US$ on the date of this submission: US$ 579.39
List the exchange rate used to calculate the amount listed in USD: US$ 1 per USD 1
Project start date (include month, day, and year)

Grantee details

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Are you an organization, an individual, or an individual submitting on behalf of a group?: Answer ORGANIZATION, INDIVIDUAL, or GROUP.; INDIVIDUAL
Project lead name: Jackson Peebles
Project lead username or email: jackson.s.peebles@wmich.edu
Project lead title (position), if any: N/A

Goals and measures of success

Project goal

This statement describes what will be accomplished if the project is successful.: This project will create positive change by lowering the barriers-to-entry for Wikipedia participants with respect to software-assisted tools. Video tutorials will be an intuitive and user-friendly way to introduce the tools and the often complex policies that surround them. I (as flow funder) believe (and my academic research has supported) the notion that we increasingly need efficient and tool-supported means to do patrolling and other maintenance tasks. While the WMF has a strategic pillar (per its 2015 plan) to "improve quality", I would argue that maintaining our current content from damage is just as important. Though English Wikipedia is the primary target project, the subject matter of these tutorials sometimes do cross language barriers (e.g., the "Huggle" tool has many language editions); and we could imagine the creation of dubbed/close-captioned tutorials in natural languages besides English.

Measures of success

Provide a list of measurable criteria will you use to determine if your project was successful. You will need to report on the success of your project according to these measures after your project is completed.: We will consider this project to be a success primarily based upon usage, which could be monitored using a hit counter. Furthermore, while the proposed tutorials would be available via Wikimedia Commons, it is my intention to incorporate them into a Wikipedia Education Course that incorporates both the CVUA and Adoption programs, to some extent, along with additional editing/tool advice. Thus, successful completion of this program could also be factored in, when developed. The most important success would manifest itself in a great quantity of quality editors as well as a greater quantity of proper tool users; this can be calculated to some extent by comparing the rate of new tool user edits pre-and-post video and monitoring whether their edits are constructive.

Project scope and activities

This section describes what will happen if this project is funded.

List of activites: What will happen if this project is funded? Who will do what, and when?; Should this project receive funding, Jackson Peebles will immediately purchase, using his academic credentials, an Adobe Captivate license and the applicable headset. He will create tutorials on STiki, Huggle, Twinkle, and various user permissions (how to obtain them, what circumstances necessitate them, and how to use them properly), as well as other tutorials based upon community input. I anticipate this being an ongoing project that does not end on the "end date" but rather is perpetual. However, with software and adequate recording equipment, no further costs are anticipated, as this will be a voluntary project.

Budget breakdown

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Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Adobe Captivate	Screen capture software (+ taxes); Academic license for which requestee is eligible	License	1	316.94	316.94	USD	Eligible for Academic License
2	Sennheiser USA PC 360	Headset used for video production (+tax)	Item	1	262.45	262.45	USD

Total project budget: USD 579.39

Total amount requested: USD 579.39

Are there additional sources of revenue that will fund any part of this project? List them here.: Academic License reduces Cost of Software

Non-financial requirements

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Resources

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Special skills or qualifications this grantee or the project lead brings to this project:
Evidence of past success in executing similar projects:

Jackson Peebles has been involved with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' online learning platforms (including work at global conferences and media production for the IFRC) and has utilized online learning platforms from the American Red Cross, Michigan Virtual University, Khan Academy, and numerous others. He has utilized Adobe Captivate in the past to create commercial tutorials. Jackson is a Wikipedia editor with reviewer, rollback, course instructor, and account creator permissions. He primarily focuses on welcoming new users, reverting vandalism, and minor copyedits. He is an undergraduate student who is majoring in Behavioral Science at Western Michigan University and a member of the American Red Cross DSHR System and the IFRC, where he has specialized in digital media on behalf of the international organization. See his personal website at http://www.jacksonpeebles.com. He has passed adoption and CVUA program and was previously endorsed in the flow funding process by Mr. Andrew West.

Impact

This section will describe how the proposed project is related to the Wikimedia mission and Wikimedia's strategic priorities. It will also provide information about other benefits to Wikimedia communities.

Fit to strategy

How will this project support the key organizational objectives of,

increasing reach (more people being able to access or contribute to Wikipedia or our other projects), participation (more people actually contributing), quality (more useful content or higher quality existing content), credibility (more trust in our projects), organizational maturity and effectiveness (how it will move your chapter or the Wikimedia community as a whole forward), or financial sustainability (how it will help your chapter achieve more in the long run)?

This statement should address at least one of the strategic priorities listed here specifically. See WMF Grants Program criteria for decisionmaking.: It is reasonable to hope that this project stands to increase reach, participating, quality, and, as a result, organizational effectiveness and financial sustainability, incorporating all aforementioned key organizational objectives. Many edits from IP users or new editors are low-quality because of the learning curve attributable to using Wikipedia. However, well-intentioned editors, once acquainted with how Wikipedia works and can be edited properly, have, in my experience, gone on to contribute in vast quantities at a high quality, in turn eventually moving on to revert vandalism, thus improving the quantity of editors by not alienating them through the learning curve while producing better articles as a result of proper training, resulting in improved credibility due to decreased vandalism and improved edit quality. This, in turn, could conceivably increase the quantity and type of end-user, which could also result in increased donations as the community's trust and use in Wikimedia projects increases.

Benefits

If your project will benefit a specific online community, please list that here. For example, English Wiktionary.: English Wikipedia, Potential Translation to Numerous Other Wikipedias

Provide a brief statement (about 1 paragraph) about how your project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. Does your project fit into a work area such as GLAM, Education, Organization Development, Editor Retention, or Outreach?: The requestee is straightforward about his real-life identity; one in which he takes part in many volunteer activities and has previous (academic) grant experience. More direct to the proposal, he also takes part in the Wikipedia education program. Finally, this project would undoubtedly contribute to Editor Retention.

If successful, does your project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1 - 2 sentences.: Yes. Anyone can create a tutorial or even interactive material given a proper format, ideas, and knowledge. While the objective is to make sure that these videos are of public, widescale-use quality, thus necessitating some mid-priced equipment, the community can easily get involved through translations (closed captioning can be translated directly in text when using Captivate) or their own videos.

Please list any other benefits that this project will produce.: This project may draw press coverage should the public find it to be useful in bridging the gap between editing and viewing.

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