WordPress.tv Moderator Update: Week 6

Welcome to the official blog of the TV review team for WordPress.tv

We approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as help WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.

We use this P2P2 “P2” is the name of the theme the blogs of make.wordpress.org use. When asked to post or view something “on the p2” by a member of the WPTV team, that usually means you’re asked to check https://make.wordpress.org/tv. to post our progress, status reports, and occasional geeky video debates. Use the “Subscribe to Blog via Email” widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. to follow along!

Want to help us?

Video Editing — You can see what videos we have that need editing in this spreadsheet. No special credentials are needed, just download the raw video file, and use your favorite app to edit.

Get started here!

Subtitles/captions — You can help us extend the reach of of WordPress.tv by adding captions or subtitles to any published video. Just find your favorite video, and follow the steps here to create a caption/translation file and submit for review.

Weekly meetings

We use Slack for real-time communication. As contributors live all over the world, there are discussions happening at all hours of the day. We have weekly team meetings every Thursday at 17:00 UTC, and they are open to the public!

Our meeting is every Thursday at 15:00 UTC in the #wptv channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. (Find out more about Slack.)

You’re welcome to listen in, or say “hi!” We would love to have your help.

Last Week

Now with moar moderators!
It’s been a busy week behind-the-scenes here in moderator land. We added a total of 4 new mods (doubling the size of our group) and that has been very refreshing! It has also led to a lot of chatter, as the “senior” moderators have only been here 3 months, and we we’re still working on our process documentation. Suffice it to say, lots of conversation on our P2P2 “P2” is the name of the theme the blogs of make.wordpress.org use. When asked to post or view something “on the p2” by a member of the WPTV team, that usually means you’re asked to check https://make.wordpress.org/tv. and during office hours on IRC yesterday as we have slowly been catching everyone up on how things are done. It’s a good problem to have. 🙂

Next week

Documentation
We have our new mods documenting their processes as they learn, which is a big help! Hopefully we will have outr process docs filled out soon. We have also have put together a document on Video Submission Standards to share with WC organizers. We’re still editing and adding to it, but hope to get that to the proper subcommittee soon to be a part of the info that is given to future WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. organizers. Work on both of these projects continue for next week.

We’re going retro!
One of the reasons we have WordCamp video moderators right now is because this used to be the job of one busy and over-worked person. That led to some videos falling through the cracks, as you can imagine. Well we’ve done an audit of the site, and found a bunch of unpublished videos from past WordCamps. We will be publishing these to WordCamp.tv next week (and beyond) so if you missed a session from your favorite WordCamp, stay tuned!