Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media

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New project on Media Calicocat 14:54, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Multimedia technology 2 Title and scope 3 Suggestion for media articles 4 Hierarchy definition 5 Existent Wikiportals 6 Advisors 7 Categories 8 Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project 9 Portal Television 10 Project Directory 11 Stablepedia 12 Panavision FAR 13 Wikipedia Day Awards 14 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes 15 Internet brigades 16 CVG project listing.

[edit] Multimedia technology

Hey Calicocat. I'm looking for a place to coordinate VST, Free audio software, Digital audio workstation, and other articles related to Multimedia technology, especially of the audio/video type. Could this project's scope expand to include that? (BTW,There was a comment tag on the project page that had commented out a big chunk of the page. I fixed it.) Quinobi 08:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Great, we need about 10 to 15 people to make this project really go, I think. at least 10. That's what's advised for projects. Some of these items fit on the articles list, so can certainly add those. Also any other thoughts are welcome. I see us looking at Media from the technical and the application side, creative solutions, compeating formats, economics, journalism, entertainment, law, ethics. Are you good at formating templates? A project needs a template to help promote it, those are placed on the talk pages of articles of relevance to the project. So we need to advertise the project some more as a good start. Hope we can make this go a bit. I'm also working on a related project on journalism. Calicocat 09:16, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

If you want to associate an article with this WikiProject just type in {{WikiProjectNotice|Media}} on its discussion page. I went ahead and stuck one on Multimedia which was nominated for an article improvement drive but never got improved. My interests are in things like audio production and the music business, but this seems like a good project to work through. BTW, haven't I seen you in #wikipedia? Maybe we can talk there and get some activity on this project rolling. Quinobi WP:CBTF 16:59, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Title and scope

Hi, Calicocat. The project title seems much wider than the stuff I saw listed so far. I'd like to suggest a middle ground, with a title of "Mass media", which would also include, for example, TV and records. Maurreen (talk) 15:02, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Media at this time, redirects to Mass media, which has a link to Media (disambiguation), which I just tried to expand a bit. We might could work from there to disambiguate the purpose and scope of this project. |wink| -----CQ----- key-up----- 05:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I put the media "disambig" page at the top the list of project related articles. I also thing the "disam" idea is good. Also, please put yourself down as a project participant. Thanks Calicocat 06:23, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I expaneded the text for the Scope of the project and also worked on templates which were modeled after the one seen at Journalism, a new color should be selected so as to aviod confusion. I added some projects I felt were similar and some that I thought were descendants; I added articles to the list and created a way for someone to sign-up easily. Calicocat 06:23, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

So would it be OK to change the name to "Mass media"? If not, how about "Media (communication)"? Maurreen (talk) 07:53, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Im glad you'll be looking in from time to time. I'd rather keep the name just as "Media;" Mass Media is included within that and then Journalism a subset of that. I wonder if there's a way to do simple graphics or flow charts to show this better... Calicocat 10:17, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for media articles

Hi there. I think it would be a good idea to start a series of articles on media bias in different countries/regions, or just media overviews in general. For example, the article Media bias in the United States would be well complimented by articles on the UK, Australia, Canada (although very close to US), Israel - in fact any country. I'd love to read about media bias in Russia, for example.

I know very little about most of these countries, but I'm willing to start the one on the UK as soon as I'm done writing my current research project (see User:Will Lakeman/Wikipedia research for details). I think it might make a nice series.illWill 22:47, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea, but in terms of this project, I thought reviewing the articles was an interesting experience; I think we're just getting the lay of the land. Doing these projects is like a "pull back to reveal" camera move, or even the aerial photography of Wikipedia. Sometimes I like doing articles, other times I like doing project work. I realize projects might not always move so quickly, nor should they. Careful consideration has to be given so as not to introduce systemic biases and to make sure that good articles are not bashed about becuase they do not meet some outside "standard" imposed by the project. Let's see how things go and try to get a few more folks looking at the porject. -30- Calicocat 06:37, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hierarchy definition

Woah. Back up a bit Calicocat. I think it's better to fill out the project page rather than fill it up. I learnt this the hard way with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community. It also has a dual scope, by the way.

I added everything carefully, giving careful thought to each item added. Some things might be reduced, but it wasn't just filling it up. That should be clear if you look at the selections made and so on. I'm not being adversarial with you. I'll certainly not rushing this along. Thanks for the comment and please sign up to help out with the project. Calicocat 09:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I like the Hierarchy statement. I think we should have something like that related to scientific hierarchy of media. I think that's natural and I included that project that way, but it would be well stated in the Hierarchy. Calicocat 10:07, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh sorry Cat. That was me. I Forgot to sign my post! By "learnt the hard way", I mean getting hollered at for eating up too much WikiProjectSpace with too few returns on the investment. The new template kind of inspired me to go hog wild, and I ended up eating some crow. That's probably a tasty meal for a CalicoCat but hardly befitting for a Jedi. Quinobi 20:14, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Existent Wikiportals

Possible relevance:

• Wikipedia:Wikiportal
• Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Culture
• Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Technology
• Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Information technology

Looking around on these and other projects might help to get some better purposity and scopage. Quinobi 20:14, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Cool I was taking a look at those. Thanks for posting them. Calicocat 03:52, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Advisors

Some folks might not have time for a lot of work on this but would be willing to give advice from time to time, or perhaps make a key contribution. Hence, I created a section for "Advisors" I think it's a good idea and, Maurreen, I took the liberty of moving your name into that section as well since you said you don't think you'll have much time on this. (I'm having fun with this. It's interesting to see the universe of articles out there.) Calicocat 03:50, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, thanks, I think "advisor" sounds better than "associate member". :) Maurreen (talk) 00:46, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Someone has proposed Category:Media and a few related categories for deletion or merging. Maurreen (talk) 00:46, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Current categories include:

• Media
  • Digital media
  • Mass media
    • Broadcasting ?
    • News media
    • Publishing

Brainstorming -- Some other possible categories are (in no particular order):

• Art media
• Computer media
• Disks and discs
• Data media
• Electronic media
• Entertainment media
• Games
• Image and video media
• Interactive media
• Online media
• Sound media
• Storage media
• Tapes

Maurreen (talk) 02:56, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

For at least the online computing portions of that taxonomy, we might consider the seven-tiered OSI_model when classifying topics. For example, the three bottom layers are called the media layers, but really if you step back and look at the model all seven layers have something to do with Computing media. Speaking of taxonomy and classification, we can probably borrow some transclusion methods from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Taxonomy and adapt them to our schema if that's a development goal for this project. I think keeping the scope large is good for this project as it helps transcend some limitations both for the reader who could benifit from a well-formed frame of reference and for this project as we grow to understand what media can include. But again I'm a bit of a megalomaniac and a mergist. Quinobi 17:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

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Existing categories: Digital media | Mass media | Broadcasting | News media | Publishing

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[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-Class and good B-Class articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any articles on media? Please post your suggestions here. Cheers!--Shanel 06:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Portal Television

In light of the Portal:Television, I'm trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Television. If anyone would like to help, then I welcome this. - The DJ 20:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council is currently in the process of developing a master directory of the existing WikiProjects to replace and update the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. These WikiProjects are of vital importance in helping wikipedia achieve its goal of becoming truly encyclopedic. Please review the following pages:

• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Culture Directory 2,
• User:Badbilltucker/Philosophy and religion Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Sports Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory,
• User:Badbilltucker/Geographical Directory/United States, (note: This page will be retitled to more accurately reflect its contents)
• User:Badbilltucker/History and society directory, and
• User:Badbilltucker/Science directory

and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope to have the existing directory replaced by the updated and corrected version of the directory above by November 1. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stablepedia

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See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team#Stablepedia. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 03:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.

[edit] Panavision FAR

Panavision has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.

Sandy (Talk) 21:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes

Hello, I just noticed that someone placed your project banner on the talk page for IATSE and was just wondering what the basis was for that. IATSE isn't really a media entity and it confused me a little. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks. Lekogm 14:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

It is based only on a list of targeted articles that were already here when I arrived.--JEF 17:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Internet brigades

I'm not quite sure if this is within the scope of this project, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Some help is needed in making a potential article over here - about the alleged flooding of the internet with information by secret police used by a few governments (currently the Russians and the Chinese have been alleged of doing this). Some notable sources are available in the references section.

The original article (which was very problematic and was deleted) was purely based on the FSB allegations, and an attempt is being made to make the future potential article more international. It is currently up for deletion review over here, where there is a tie of votes (9 to 9) between those who endorse its deletion and those who want it overturned and relisted.

This is a very controversial topic, but in my view there seem to be enough notable sources to make a decent article out of it, so I hope that someone here may be able to help.

I'm posting this message on several different wikiprojects, in the hope that enough people look at the article that it undergoes the thorough review which it needs. Esn 01:27, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CVG project listing.

The WikiProject Media tag is on the talk page for video game articles. However, the WikiProject for video games isn't listed on this project's main page. Why is this so? Aarktica 18:49, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I did not see the videogame Wikiproject tag when I went through the articles, but if it on a significant amount then you can go ahead and add it to the related WikiProjects list.--JEF 20:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I will go ahead and put it since I found that they share some talk pages. I believe the reason was because the video game project is new.--JEF 20:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)