The WINOL Wiki

I started working on the design of an archive for WINOL over the Christmas break, as some of you know, and as I'm now on production I can make the thing official. You can find the archive here: http://winol.wikispaces.com/

The Plan

The archive/wiki will have all the bulletins listed from this week onwards, with spaces for individual packages to be posted. The aim is to have all our work in a centralised place, and so we can avoid the confusion we currently have. Finding stuff that's more than a week old becomes difficult as we increasingly forget about it, all our work is wiped off the computers at the end of each year. The archive will be a place for all our produced content, and if we're willing to write any guides (such as on production elements or a how-to on pull focusing) they can be put into the place, rather than rotting on our blogs where only a few people will read the post and soon forget of it.

The wiki is split into 5 parts:

• Video
• Audio
• Photo
• Written
• Manuals

Video and Audio is split into news, sports and features, which are further broken down. The written section isn't on there yet - as I'm actually debating whether or not to include it, as we can go to winol.co.uk for that. And the Manuals are any guides we write of course.

Currently the only section of the website that's roughly complete is Video, but that's enough for this week's bulletin.

The video archive is split as follows:

• Bulletin, with the full video and details
• Stories, with each individual story listed with the package separate of the bulletin (helpful if it has been reversioned)
• Running Stories, e.g. Barton Farm or bin strikes, with each story from this series and a timeline
• Interviews, with unabridged, full length versions if possible

Where You Come In

Unfortunately, I can't do this all on my own. My side is the simple but menial task of organising the archive - embedding videos, making sure links work, so on.

Reporters need to upload their footage individually to youtube for this to work!

Putting your videos on your personal youtube account is already a good idea since it keeps all your work in one place and comes in handy when you're making your show reel. It's helpful for me as well if you upload following three things to youtube as you're editing:

• Unabridged interviews
• Any stock footage that might be reuseable, such as GVs of Winchester, snow leopards, lamp posts, etc
• The package itself

I know editing can be hectic, but you can easily export the complete interview right after you've captured your footage and upload that separately even before you've started editing proper. Failing that, there's usually a lull from12pm and 4pm on a Wednesday for most reporters, between handing in packages at the last minute and the debrief.

From editing the relevant bits to uploading all this to youtube and then sending me the links via facebook, twitter or email I don't think I'm asking for more than 15 minutes out of anyone's day to do this.

I'm aware this is the boring production side most reporters will gladly skip out on, but doing this will, if nothing else, help us each individually when it comes to writing our critical reflect or editing our show reel at the end of our uni time.

I know Chris would like this to be accessible to the public for any usage and traffic, but we can't really do that until we have something to show - so it would be great if we can get this filled up with all our work by the end of the semester and have something worth showing off!