The Audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous Vocations is a project designed and implemented by the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group to document and preserve the knowledge of Yoruba indigenous vocations that are likely to go into extinction. The primary goals of this project include but are not limited to the following;
- To document, and preserve the knowledge of Yoruba indigenous vocations
- Provide audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous vocations under a free license for use on Wikipedia
- Create audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous vocations under a free license for educational purpose
- Promote indigenous knowledge
- Promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in knowledge sharing
- Bridge content gaps on Wikimedia projects.
The project began in July 2022 but the shooting was done from the 12th of July to the 20th of August. Members of the project team traveled to villages in South West of Nigeria to record these audiovisuals. The videos were essentially short at Iseyin, Oyo State, Nigeria, and a total of 20 audiovisuals were recorded. Tunde Oladimeji, a notable Nigerian documentary filmmaker, actor, director, and television presenter, known for pioneering documentary films in an indigenous language in Nigeria was commissioned and supported by the audiovisual production team at Yoruba Wikimedians User Group. Tunde Oladimeji was commissioned because he has worked on a similar project for the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. The recordings were done in Yoruba language but subtitled in the English language.
The recordings were not scripted but elicited through structured conversations that encourage the speakers to use different grammatical tenses in their language and share culturally relevant knowledge of the indigenous vocations.
