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=== Magical Worlds With Harry Potter === | === Magical Worlds With Harry Potter === | ||
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/magic-with-harry-potter | Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/magic-with-harry-potter | ||
Description: | |||
Harry Potter fan fiction. | |||
Format: | |||
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count. | |||
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF. | |||
=== Writersroom:The Script Gym === | === Writersroom:The Script Gym === |
Revision as of 13:18, 29 March 2020
BBC Mixital | |
URL | https://www.mixital.co.uk/ |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #missitall (on hackint) |
BBC Mixital was a site allowing users to create their own games, cartoons, music videos and stories. Often, but not always, these creations would be themed around a BBC television property (for example, the section for Dr Who fan-fiction).
In April 2019 the BBC announced that Mixital was to be closed, citing "We’ve learned a number of valuable lessons that we’ll share internally and with partners, but we feel the time is right to take these lessons and explore how we might apply them in other ways online."[1]
From April 2019 the ability to publish new creations on the website has been removed. New users are also unable to create an account. THe content will remain online until April 2020 when it "will no longer be publicly available".[1]
Discovery and API
In the shutdown announcement, the BBC stated that Mixital contains "more than one million ... creations".[2]
- Search: https://www.mixital.co.uk/api/search/results?term=&term=&sort=newest&channelId=0&perPage=12&yawfMod=1&over16=1&page=1
- Content: https://www.mixital.co.uk/dmk/digitalmake/play/731
- View count: https://www.mixital.co.uk/api/digitalmake/view/731
- Comments: https://www.mixital.co.uk/digitalmake/731/comments?page=1
- Member’s “makes”: https://www.mixital.co.uk/fetchdom/public-published-makes?member=29239&displayPublic=true&page=1&sort=desc
Range of Content
The type of content on Mixital varies wildly. Some items, such as fanfiction will likely be fairly simple to archive. Other content, such as the dancing robots will likely require effort to reverse engineer the JavaScript and requests used to make the creation "work".
Channels
Mixital is split into about 20 or so "channels" each with their own content-creation interface.
BBC Young Reporter - Video Reports
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/youngreporter
Description:
"Find your voice with BBC Young Reporter! If you're aged between 11-18 years old, make and share the stories that matter to you! Learn how to make your film and upload it here"
Format:
A small page with an amateur video news report, a description, video uploader and view count.
Videos are publicly accessible both from the page they're posted on but also by direct URL:
https://www.mixital.co.uk/images-s3/{uploader-id}/57/DD-Mmm-YYYY/HH-MM-SS/media.mp4
ex. https://www.mixital.co.uk/images-s3/czgzvgbmlp/57/15-Mar-2019/14-23-40/media.mp4
Note: Some pages might be missing their videos.
BBC Young Reporter - Written Reports
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/write-with-youngreporter
Description:
Written reports for the BBC Young Reporter program.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
BBC Young Reporter - Images
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/young-reporter-images
Description:
JPEG images for the BBC Young Reporter program.
Format:
A small page with a photo, a description, uploader and view count.
Direct links to the photos also exist but seem to have their URL generated based on something akin to upload id, making retrieval non-trivial.
BBC The Social
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/the-social
Description:
Short scripts/scenarios for creative writing.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
BBC Introducing: Vizii
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/bbc-introducing-vizii
Description:
A fun tool for adding visuals (hence the name Vizii) to songs. Users can also edit the song they're currently listening to, although export or "remixing" are no longer possible as new accounts can't be opened. That being said it's possible to play around and screen-cap for anyone willing to document this.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to an HTML-5 canvas which displays the Vizii content, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The Vizii player is loaded into the canvas and seems to make an access to a blob database to retrieve the contents for a particular submission. Seeing as it might be difficult to fully emulate this infrastructure it's worth opting to just record the canvas content as a video (which requires a screen recorder as there isn't an option for downloading).
Ten Pieces: SuperConductor
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/ten-pieces-vizii
Description:
An "expansion pack" for Vizii with different art assets to choose from. Other features appear to be more or less identical.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to an HTML-5 canvas which displays the Vizii content, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The Vizii player is loaded into the canvas and seems to make an access to a blob database to retrieve the contents for a particular submission. Seeing as it might be difficult to fully emulate this infrastructure it's worth opting to just record the canvas content as a video (which requires a screen recorder as there isn't an option for downloading).
Doctor Who: FanFiction
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/doctor-who-fanfiction
Description:
Doctor Who fan fiction.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
Class: FanFiction
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/class-fanfiction
Description:
Class (BBC, 2016 series) fan fiction.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
Jane Austen: Fan Fiction
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/jane-austen-fan-fiction
Description:
Fan fiction based on the characters of 18th-19th century author Jane Austen.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
Magical Worlds With Harry Potter
Available at https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/magic-with-harry-potter
Description:
Harry Potter fan fiction.
Format:
A small page with an image box which leads to the pop-up report, a description, content uploader (can be an institution such as a school) and view count.
The contents of the pop-up text report may be copied to clip-board as-is, or optionally exported as a PDF.
Writersroom:The Script Gym
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/writersroom
Contains: FLANEUR
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/contains-strong-language
BBC Three Top Ten Comedy Kit
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/top-ten-comedy-kit
EastEnders: Soap Factory
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/eastenders-soap-factory
Wolf Jenkins StoryTeller
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/wolf-jenkins
A.Dot's Trashbag Tuesday
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/trashbag-tuesday
Big Painting Challenge
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/big-painting-challenge-images
Fortysix: Bring Ideas to life
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/accelerate-your-idea
Gold Rush Game Maker
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/gold-rush-game-maker
Strictly: Robo-Dancers
https://www.mixital.co.uk/channel/strictly-robo-dancers