WordPress.tv Moderator Update: Week 15

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Not much has been happening in terms of videos being uploaded the past couple of weeks. With Miami, San Diego, and Atlanta just having finished, we expect to start seeing those videos get uploaded and published.

Since launching “Get Involved” a few weeks ago, we’ve had a couple of videos that didn’t meet the guidelines. It might be helpful to review those again before creating or submitting your videos. We’d love to see more meetups and screencasts. A few moderators are working on a list of what they are going to create. They’ll be posting on our P2, if you’d like to check it out.

This Week:

Since our last update we’ve published 8 videos (5 How-To, 1 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., 1 MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area.)

We discussed publishing policy amongst moderators

Started creating a list of possible How-To videos moderators can help create

#wordpress-tv-event-video-management

Sara Rosso 3:02 pm on April 11, 2013

Started creating a list of possible How-To videos moderators can help create

Really interested in following this – seeing some pretty decent ones get uploaded and I think a good idea would be to tag which version they are being recorded in; 1) so we can have a cool page like /version-3-6/ for new features and/or related to the latest version, and 2) it will be super easy to identify which videos are outdated (i.e., media manager before 3.5, etc.)
- Jerry Bates (JerrySarcastic) 8:44 pm on April 11, 2013
  
  I like this idea a lot! One thing that this has me thinking about is a way to flag anything that is deprecated as well.
  
  As good as a current version tag is, for new users that is not as helpful as only seeing videos that are relavent. Having a way to flag or hide videos that are out-of-date or use a feature that is no longer in WordPress would be helpful here.
  
  For example, say we’re all on 3.6 now: A video that shows how to manage comments in 3.3 may still be perfectly valid and helpful information, but a video that shows how to create an image gallery in 3.3 should not be coming up in search, or showing on the site in an obvious way.
ajmorris 3:07 pm on April 11, 2013

@rosso99 That’s a very good point. I don’t think we’ve talked about tagging based on version. Something we really should consider. I’ll mention it to the mods right now. 🙂

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