Fundraising 2012/Translation/Andrea Zanni video (captions)

00:00:00.9,00:00:04.686 Wikipedia took serendipity to another whole level.

00:00:05.262,00:00:11.442 You just go, and you always go in the "N", reading about the history of black metal in Sweden.

00:00:12.861,00:00:18.422 I'm Andrea Zanni and I work as a volunteer in the Italian Wikisource.

00:00:19.281,00:00:27.627 Wikisource is a digital library. It owns and hosts ancient books, like old books, public domain ones.

00:00:28.065,00:00:39.131 and we put books up for people to read. We digitze some of them. We put them on Wikisource, and then we transcribe them.

00:00:39.131,00:00:45.922 We also try to link the books between each other, because there is the possibility to link one to another.

00:00:46.426,00:00:56.740 to link a text to another, and try to follow quotes and create a sort of hyper-textual digital library.

00:00:56.74,00:01:02.463 I really love that about Wikisource - the possibility to create a connected integrated library

00:01:02.463,00:01:05.749 Serendipidity is one of the best things in life,

00:01:05.749,00:01:13.749 and it's just -- serendipity is when you find something interesting, but you're looking for something else.

00:01:13.75,00:01:17.777 It always happens when you go in a bookstore.

00:01:18.239,00:01:22.944 It always happens when you go in a library with open shelves.

00:01:22.944,00:01:29.741 As everyone does, I was searching a word in Google. I came out on Wikipedia,

00:01:29.741,00:01:34.172 and then I started. I thought, OK, this is not possible,

00:01:34.172,00:01:39.779 like, it can't be Open 21. It can't be like this, editable for anyone,

00:01:39.779,00:01:41.21 and it was

00:01:41.214,00:01:47.39 and then I discovered Wikiquotes; that was a project I really enjoyed the first times.

00:01:47.386,00:01:51.24 So I started working there, and then I discovered Wikisource, and I said, OK, this is my place

00:01:51.72,00:01:59.58 And you know, there were the books, and there was the nerdy part with computers, software stuff that was together.

00:01:59.576,00:02:01.64 and OK, I belong here.

00:02:01.641,00:02:06.64 Wikipedia, yes, it's probably the best serendipitous thing ever, right now.

00:02:10.11,00:02:10.55 Director: Victor Grigas

00:02:10.546,00:02:11.19 Codirector: David Grossman

00:02:11.189,00:02:11.98 Producer: Zack Exley

00:02:11.977,00:02:12.48 Director of Photography: Pruitt Y. Allen

00:02:12.478,00:02:12.97 Video Photographers: Jack Harris, Adam Parr, Matthew Storck

00:02:12.969,00:02:13.44 Portrait Photographers: Adam Novak, Karen Sayre

00:02:13.44,00:02:13.88 Makeup: Melissa Klein

00:02:13.882,00:02:14.66 Interviewers: Alma Chapa, Jonathan Curiel, Stephen Geer, Dan McSwain, Corey O'Brien, Frank O'Brien, Jacob Wilson

00:02:14.662,00:02:15.30 Production Coordinators: Megan Hernandez, Bryony Jones, Beatrice Springborn

00:02:15.305,00:02:15.74 Production Assistants: Toby Hessenauer, Kristin Rigsby

00:02:15.74,00:02:16.08 Video Editors: Justine Gendron, Victor Grigas, Jawad Qadir

00:02:16.082,00:02:16.33 Writer: Desirina Boskovich

00:02:16.326,00:02:16.53 Transcription Services: Kate Aleo, Michael Beattie, Karen Callier, Petro Leigh, Mimi Li, Jacqui Pastor, Kristie Robinson, Brittany Turner, Susan Walling

00:02:16.528,00:02:16.73 English Closed-Captioning: AlanKelly VerbatimIT