+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.
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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,
-- Jean-Frédéric
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