Thanks, Jean-Fred and SJ,
I agree with you both that subtitles are an important service for us to provide, as we ramp up our video collections.
Earlier this year, I had a great conversation with Nicholas Reville, founder of Participatory Culture, the organization that runs Amara. They would be happy to work with us to provide subtitles on our sites, and are open to doing what it takes to make it happen.
That said, our multimedia team is switching its focus two two large projects (Upload Wizard and Structured Data), which means we’ll have to postpone work on video until these projects are further along. Also keep in mind that we still have a lot of basic video work that needs to take place (e.g.: TimedMediaHandler upgrade, Kaltura player 2.0 integration, transcoding for unsupported formats, error messages for unsupported formats) before we can start devoting our scarce resources to add-on services like subtitles.
So it’s good that this service is on everyone’s radar, but as far as our team is concerned, we’ll have to pick up this work at a later date, sadly.
Fabrice
+1 great question.
There are a lot of video archives we have access to that it would be
great to work around with / convert into microtask challenges. For
instance, the collection of Khan Acad. videos from 2008 before they
changed their licensing to a non-commons-compatible one.
One good reason to ingest them into Commons rather than leaving them
in other open-access archives online is that we could subtitle and
then translate the subtitles (and then generate voiceovers in
different languages) -- something few archives do.
S
S
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Jean-Frédéric
<jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I understand this is not on the multimedia team priorities, but I wanted to
put under the radar the subtitle support on Wikimedia projects
I just created [[bug:64031]] to keep track of this:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=subtitle
The two main features really impairing the subtitle workflow right now (in
my opinion at least) are:
* Integration with Translate extension.
Bug discussion seems to indicate not much needs to be done but the path
forward is unclear
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42790>
* Amara / UniversalSubtitles integration
Amara / Universal Subtitles is an awesome tool to easily add subtitles to
videos.
As part of the 2011 (?) multimedia Beta, we used to have it integrated on
Wikimedia Commons, but not anymore (not sure when that was discontinued).
Where did it go? What would it take to have it back?
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62699>
I hope this is in scope of this list :)
Thanks,
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