Hi Roger!<br><br>No ill-will this side! And I hope Luca also takes this discussion in a community spirit.<br><br><b>@How to select videos:</b><br>Yes, you nailed it! <br><br>In addition, we also need criteria for selecting videos (both for quality and relevance and coverage vis-a-vis each chapter/topic in the wiki). <br>
<br>Some quality-related criteria could be as follows: (this is not an exhaustive list)<br><ul><li>Minimum video resolution (some videos on the net are blurry, or even shot with a camera)</li><li>Presentation style<br></li>
<li>Crisp audio</li><li>Max size restriction<br></li></ul>We also may need to edit the selected videos (e.g. to take out a part that does not meet our criteria, or to split it to fit the wiki's lesson-plan). <b><br><br>
</b><b>@sandbox:</b><br>that's unnecessarily complex. <br><br>In the example <a href="http://www.den4b.com/wiki/Main_Page">here</a>, we simply used the <b>Discussion </b>page on wiki to create the entire proposed page (including the exact layout- Not just the text). Then the critiques added their comments below. Everyone added ~~~~ at the end of his argument so that mediawiki adds name+timestamp to identify who wrote what, and when. <br>
<br>Whenever lengthier discussion was needed, we used a BB forum (lengthier arguments are better handled by a BB page as compared to a wiki's discussion page). <br><br>Finally we altered the article and moved it from discussion page to the main wiki page.<br>
<br>****<br><br>The easiest way is to start with the new TOC, and create all those wiki pages (each page has its discussion page). Then each volunteer (there are just 3, mind!) starts with whatever he likes (the areas may be split using BB forum or this mail list).<br>
<br>I have found that there is nothing wrong if we write on the main page itself (a wiki page is not sacred).<br>But if there is total uncertainty, by all means start with the discussion page. <br><br><b>@Videos:</b><br>Although BF has a channel, the videos are not organized vis-a-vis wiki.<br>
I had provided the two examples for that reason alone.<br><br>This <a href="http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/">link</a> shows how EIGHT premier engineering institutes (spread over India) are collaborating.<br>There are 136 engineering courses, each course covered in about 40 one-hour videos.<br>
The supporting pdfs (syllabus+handouts) are hosted at the institutes own site.<br><br>In other words, while the NPTEL channel hosts the videos, the individual institutes provide the course framework.<br><br>I am proposing a similar wiki-to-video correlation.<br>
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