Visual Story Spore
The Visual Story Spore is an attempt at documenting and explaining the world's knowledge with an emphasis on audio, images, video and visualizations. This builds on the model of galleries at Wikimedia Commons, but with greater curated narrative details, and with use of broader sources and oral knowledge.
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Inspiration from other Wikimedia projects
The following pages and articles on other Wikimedia projects also share knowledge in a mainly audiovisual way, and can serve as inspiration for this Spore. Feel free to add examples.
Galleries on Wikimedia Commons
On Wikimedia Commons, volunteers purposefully arrange files in so-called galleries. Some are heavily maintained, other less so. The default settings for galleries in the MediaWiki software only produce rather smallish thumbnails, as can be seen in some examples below:
- Mohandas K. Gandhi - extensive chronological picture gallery, but with small images
- Creative uses of Wikimedia Commons galleries
- The Vanamo Online Game Museum is an extensive visual display of video game devices (in userspace).
- In 2017, the Wiki Loves Africa photography contest has pioneered with photo essays that show the process of various types of (manual) work in Africa.
- Zanzibar seaweeds soap making (winner)
- The making of thatch in Nigeria (winner)
- Dynamic (Wikidata-driven) Wikimedia Commons galleries
- Paintings by Paul Klee
- Self-portraits of women
- WikiFlix, an experimental (and under construction) portal for watching public domain movies on Wikimedia Commons (in userspace)
Other
- The VideoWiki project aims to create (editable and sourced) video versions of Wikipedia articles.