Thanks, so I synchronized the captions’ texts with the subtitles’ texts, and I improved the times for the captions (it’s still not perfect as I don’t have good tools and I’m just changing/testing on Commons).

It’s here if you want to pick it for your language: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.web...

Sylvain

Le 26/12/2016 à 22:25, Guillaume Paumier a écrit :

Forwarding Victor's response

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Victor Grigas* <vgrigas@wikimedia.org mailto:vgrigas@wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Re: [Translators-l] Request for translation: Captions of the 2016 "Facts matter" video To: Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi everyone,

I'm not subscribed to translators-l, so I'm getting this from a forwarded message.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Sylvain Chiron" <chironsylvain@orange.fr
<mailto:chironsylvain@orange.fr>>
Date: Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Translators-l] Request for translation: Captions of
the 2016 "Facts matter" video
To: <translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Cc:

Hi,

In case I’d be doing something wrong: why aren’t the white subtitles
synchronized with the yellow subtitles?

To make a perfect sync takes extra effort and the captioning company that I contracted with to create the captions did not offer a service to sync captions to the already burned-in subtitles. I asked them to, and the said that they couldn't offer the service and unfortunately, I didn't have time to do it myself.

I'll also add that adding captions to a subtitles video isn't something I like doing. I only did it because this video is in two languages and if you happen to turn off captions, and there are no subtitles, then you wouldn't understand half of the video.

I feel it’s a bit disturbing,
while the video is already very dynamic and there’s many things to
follow. Can I readapt the subtitles for my translated (French) version?

So to be clear: Captions are metadata you can turn off and on Subtitles are burned in text on the video

To answer your question - *Yes!*

I had a request from a Polish Wikimedian, and exported a version without any subtitles or intertitles - the only text is credits and anything that might be captured photographically:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter_(No_subtitle... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter_(No_subtitles,_no_titles_-_this_version_is_designed_for_YOU_to_add_intertitles_and_subtitles_in_YOUR_language_with_video_editing_software,_and_is_not_designed_to_be_played_alone).webm

Instructions for font sizes, style, et cetera are in the summary on the video above.

This version has already been forked into two Chinese versions:

Traditional Chinese version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qzxXYn8jU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qzxXYn8jU&feature=youtu.be Simplified Chinese version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xayi7ahCnzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xayi7ahCnzY

The Wikimedian used a proprietary program called screenflow to add the subtitles and intertitles precisely.

Well, I really like the video, hoping it’ll make people reflect about
the role of Wikipedia in an informed world. I might use it for some
sceptical friends, to show that WMF people are able to do high
quality work.

All the best and possibly happy festivities for those who have,

Sylvain

:)

Also I'll say thank you to everyone who translated captions so far! I just migrated 8 finished languages to the YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs

Can anyone do an RU or PT translation?

Le 23/12/2016 à 17:31, Guillaume Paumier a écrit :
> Dear translators,
>
> Victor Grigas just published the latest Wikimedia-year-in-review video
> on Commons and other sites, and he's requesting help with translating
> the captions. Any assistance you could offer would be most appreciated
> :)
>
> Happy holidays,
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org
<mailto:vgrigas@wikimedia.org>>
> Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:29 PM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO - Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We just published our year-in-review video,
> *Wikipedia: #FactsMatter2016*
>
> Wikimedia Commons:
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm>
>
> YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs>
>
> Vimeo:
> https://vimeo.com/196775243
>
> If you can, please translate the captions on commons. Once I have
enough
> languages translated there, I'll migrate them to YouTube and Vimeo.
> Tomorrow morning (EST) we will be sharing this video to our
Facebook and
> Twitter channels.
>
> :)
>
> To translate, copy this
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm.en.srt
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm.en.srt>
>
> then go here and pick your language
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText%3AWikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText%3AWikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm>
>
> --
>
> *Victor Grigas*
> Video Production Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> vgrigas@wikimedia.org <mailto:vgrigas@wikimedia.org>
> https://donate.wikimedia.org/

-- Guillaume Paumier