Edouard Isar shared this request with the wikivideo list yesterday.
Michael noted the category
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_needing_subtitles
But perhaps some video editors on Commons (or people developing video
for other Foundation projects) have their own suggestions for great
videos to subtitle. Thanks Edouard and PCF for this outreach effort!
SJ,
going shortly to a meeting on freeing video archives
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Edouard Isar <ed(a)pculture.org> wrote:
> Hello Wikivideo list members,
>
> I'm contacting you on the behalf of the Participatory Culture Foundation.
> You might have heard of Universal Subtitles, a project we are currently
> working that enables collaborative creation and editing of subtitles for
> online video. Great for reaching an audience that doesn't speak your
> language, or to improve accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing users.
>
> We're currently working on a list of social interest videos, as well as on a
> page where deaf and hard of hearing users can suggest social videos they'd
> like subtitled. We are also working with organizations to ask what videos
> they would like subbed. This is where you come in: it is a chance for
> Wikivideo to get free captions and translations from volunteers.
>
> So, if you'd like to send me links for one to four videos you'd like
> captioned and translated, we'll get the ball rolling!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ed
> Participatory Culture Foundation
>
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Allrightsreserved is a new website proposed for the purpose of hosting
contents currentlty tagged with commons:Template:Copyright by
Wikimedia, commons:Copyright by Wikimedia Deutschland and
commons:Template:Copyright by Wikimedia Polska and hosted at Wikimedia
Commons.
More at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allrightsreserved
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> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:08:25 +0100
> From: Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for an
> allrightsreserved.wikimedia.org website
> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> On 1 February 2011 22:27, Blurpeace <blurpeace(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > so we can remove
> > two sentences from project policy?
>
> Note that another slight disadvantage of the current state of affairs
> is that sites using InstantCommons (e.g. the OpenStreetMap wiki) are
> currently able to use CopyrightByWikimedia images (well, more than
> just ?able to use?, they can do that inadvertently; they cannot simply
> distinguish the non-free files from the free rest).
>
> -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
Whats being proposed here doesn't directly fix that, since if you
setup multiple foreign repositories (at least how the code currently
work), other people using you as a forign repository can get to
foreign files through you. However, it'd probably make the coding
required to exclude such files significantly easier.
Someone else said:
>But. there's no reason why the two should be technically separated. It's
>already been practically divided by categories. It's not considered
>unnecessary faff just by techs; any pragmatic person would agree.
Has any of the ops people actually said this would be annoying or in
anyway difficult to set up. I know things get much more complicated
when you're dealing with 800 wikis, one of which is in the top 6 (or
whatever) sites of the internet, but still - this looks like about 5
extra lines in one config file (assuming meta is used so a new wiki
isn't set up). The only complicated bit might be make global image
links work (but then again, there may be complications i just don't
see).
-bawolff