How to participate
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Rate films for Dharma content
If you are a practitioner and want to contribute then consider rating films you know about for their dharma content. Your participation will speed the self-organization of the Top 100 Rated Films based on Dharma Content.
Write a review & email it to us
Want to help spread the Dharma with the most powerful artistic medium of our time? Has a movie inspired you on the path? Has a movie helped you to see that Reality may not be as it seems? Has it helped to loosen, if only a little, the conceptual conditions that keep you from appreciating that your entire world arises from mind? Has a film brought you the joy to know that we can walk the path together, and evolve into something incomprehensible? Has it helped to express for you one or more of the many Buddhist ideas such as compassion, karma, emptiness, manifestation, path, …?
Then why not share it with other people and practitioners. Write a review that helps people see the wisdom of the Buddha as expressed in film and join a world wide sangha. You can email a Buddhist review to us and we will post it for you. You will be given credit for your review. Unfortunately we can provide no other compensation than to say thanks and remind you to share the merit you obtain with all sentient beings. Email your review to: DharmaFlix reviews
Add a link from a film review page in Wikipedia
For many of the films covered here, we feel a link to our film review from the film review on Wikipedia will materially add valuable information about the film for Wikipedia users. On that basis we feel it is appropriate for the corresponding film page in Wikipedia to link to the page on the film here. For example, the page on The Matrix on Wikipedia should link to The Matrix series here. However, Wikipedia is quite strict about these things and they have a rule that the editorial staff at DharmaFlix cannot add such links themselves. It has to be you that adds the link if you think that Buddhist interpretations of the film materially add to knowledge about the film you are considering linking from Wikipedia. The link should look something like
* [http://www.dharmaflix.com/wiki/The_Matrix_Series ''The Matrix''] Buddhist interpretations of the film
which will look like
* The Matrix Buddhist interpretations of the film
on the Wikipedia page.
Make sure there isn't already a link to a DharmaFlix page. Currently there is one for The Matrix! Make sure and change the link to DharmaFlix to the actual film review page on DharmaFlix. Copying and pasting the link itself will make that easier. Also make sure and preview the page and test the link to make sure it goes to the right place.
Participate by Editing the Wiki
All films, except in the Spiritual Films section, should have Buddhist dharma content.
Add a Comment to a Discussion Page
One way to contribute is by discussing the content of the WIKI. Every page on DharmaFlix.com has an associated discussion (also known as talk) page associated with it. You can reach the discussion page for a "normal" page by clicking on the discussion tab at the top of the page. Most discussion pages on the site are fully user-editable, even if the associated main page is not. So discussion pages are a great place to post notes and suggestions about other pages. They're also a good place for questions relating specifically to the page they talk about. For example, if you think something on any review might be inaccurate, or something is unclear and needs to be clarified, posting a question on the discussion page for that review is appropriate.
Add and edit pages demonstration video
Add a film
Its easy. Find an appropriate section in Films, Documentaries, TV shows, etc. Click on the [edit] link for the section, and add the name at the bottom of the list in the same format as the other entries in the section.
Add Video content
This is a site about movies, and because of all the video content now on the web, it becomes possible to quote relevant passages of dharma content with video clips from sites like Youtube, Google Video, DailyMotion, SevenLoad, and Revver. The wiki code for YouTube looks like: <videoflash>4lhyH5TsuPg</videoflash>, where "4lhyH5TsuPg" is the id code taken from the the URL on the YouTube video page. The YouTube URL looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhyH5TsuPg. See codes for the other video sites at Video Flash codes.
So its easy. Find relevant videos for the film on Youtube. Copy the video URL. Go to a film that you want to add content to, or add a film as talked about above. Click the [edit] link at the top of the page and place the video link below the images (if there are any). Just paste the videoflash code and then paste the id code from the YouTube URL into the videoflash code. Click on the Show preview button, to preview the results. When it works, then click Save Page. To experiment, play in the Wiki Sandbox at the top of the Films page.
Add Pictures
Its easy. Find pictures from the film on the web. To save them, right-mouse click on them and select save image as. Rename the image if appropriate. Use the Upload file link in the toolbox at the left of the page, to upload the image. When its finished, copy the name of the image from the title of the image page. (That's so you have it. It has to be the exact name.) Go to the page you want to include the image in, and click [edit] in the appropriate section. Position the cursor where you want to image to go. Click the embedded image button on the editing toolbar (to the right of the A). Type or paste in the image name. To experiment, play in the Wiki Sandbox.
Add a Review Section
If there isn't a View from Nowhere Section or an Other Views from Nowhere Section, you may want to add one. Its easy. Click the edit tab. In the toolbar, click the large black A buttion. Replace "Headline text" with "View from Nowhere" or "Other Views from Nowhere" as appropriate.
Write a review
Its easy. Click the [edit] link to the far right of "View from Nowhere". Start writing the review. Don't worry if it seems messy. Someone else will clean it up and you will get better and better at wiki editing as you participate.
Make clips that show the Buddhist message
I can only point you in the right direction here. I am not suggesting you download any material that it is not legal to download. There are opensource films available online via Emule and torrents that can be downloaded and then the Buddhist parts clipped into movie clips for inclusion as video quotes. Once you have made the clips you can upload them to YouTube or Google Video or DailyMotion or Sevenload or Revver. They can then be included on the film review page. If you don't feel confident to include them yourself, email the link to: DharmaFlix movie clips
Showing is always better than telling, and now the technology exists to show. Easy Video Splitter makes it easy to split downloaded films. Perhaps someone knows how to make clips directly from DVD's. That would be really cool, and if no software exists, such software would be a cool product.
Need Help
If you need help using the wiki format and editing the wiki pages, go to Help:Contents.
With each page, there is a discussion tab where participants can leave comments, thoughts, and other communications.
- Have a question, post here: [Discussion] or email: rahrini@dharmaflix.com
- Questions on content, email: bruce@dharmaflix.com
