Wikimentary is a new interactive documentary on the history and future of wiki. To start the project we are organising a series of interviews, and video conferences with experts from around the world.
# Silver Jubilee Video
We began this process with a celebration of wiki's silver jubilee, and are now moving on to editing the footage from this event together with historical material, and collecting testimonials from attendees.
VIMEO 402012353 This is Wiki 25th Anniversary Video call on 25/03/20
# Progress
Over the summer months we have been working on a range of techniques, and building a novel documentary infrastructure which we intend to use for the Wikimentary. This has been largely in response to the pandemic, which made the logistics of filming in Portland difficult, but also because of the interest and excitement around new ways of working online based around the ubiquity of platform like Zoom.
We are now ready to begin documenting the process of software development inside wiki in a process we could call wikicasting. It is not quite ready yet, and by this we are not talking about a finished piece of software, but rather the core physical, human centred and software supported nexus around which the project can grow. Our aim after all is to document the process of software development in an engaging way.
# Wikicast
Our target remains the same - to launch the Wlikimentary on January 15th 2021 on the 25th anniversary of the first edit on Wikipedia. Between now and then we aim to have a network of home studios up and running, and the format of the wikicast established.
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