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{{WCNA 2019 Grant Submission
|name=James Heilman
|username=Doc James
|email=jmh649{{@}}gmail.com
|resume=Long term Wikipedian. Founding member of Wikimedia Canada and Wiki Project Med Foundation. Current chair of Wiki Project Med Foundation. Former board member of the Wikimedia Foundation. Further details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heilman
|geography=Global
|type=Technology
|idea=We have been involved with developing software that converts a mediawiki based videoscript into a video. https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:VideoWiki

An example of a script and video is here https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Video:Tuberculosis

Maintenance and further development / addition of languages is required. We want to bring on a part time developer to assist with is.
|importance=Wikipedia is very heavily text based. Many people prefer to learn by watching videos or have a limited reading ability. VideoWiki will get knowledge out to a greater audience including those who are most disadvanced.
|inprogress=Yes overview can be found here https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:VideoWiki
|relevance=The software currently works within 15 languages of Wikipedia with interest to add its functionality to further languages.

VideoWiki also works well for how to advice. https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Video:Abdominal_thrusts
|impact=To improve multimedia within the Wikimedia movement and get high quality knowledge out to more people in a format and language that they can comprehend.
|scalability=Yes. The software also allows a human voice to be used for languages in which text to speech does not exist. This is important for languages in which text to speech engines do not exist. For example here you hear the voice of Dr. Subas https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%AD%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%93%E0%AD%B1%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF/%E0%AC%86%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%A3%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B8
|people=Not sure what you mean? Our goal is to bring accurate knowledge to a wider audience.
|inclusiveness=Adding another format of knowledge to the movement will expand the movement both with respect to inclusiveness and diversity.
|challenges=The main challenge is managing the technical aspects. Software needs to be continually updated and fixed. We need funding to hire a long term programmer to manage this.
|cost=5,000 USD
|expenses=The money will go towards paying a programmer and for the Google text to speech engine.
|time=This project is ongoing.
|previous=I have supported prior grants. However our most recent grant request was rejected by the WMF https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WPM:VideoWiki
}}

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