Being new to translation of video subtitles, it took me a while to find out how to view the videos. This is what I found out:

1) You can view the videos on Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_videos. 2) If you can't play the videos on your computer, consult the help page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help. 3) To see subtitles on videos at Wikimedia Commons you need to enable the MwEmbed gadget - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:MwEmbed 4) The talk page of the english subtitles has got links to the subtitled videos and so has the file description page. 5) Because the videos are made up of more than one speaker, you have to view the videos to find out when one speaker changes to another. Cues for change of speaker in the English text would have been helpful, but no big deal.

Have fun with these. Regards, Eleri James (Lloffiwr)

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:01:20 +0900 From: KIZU Naoko aphaia@gmail.com Subject: [Translators-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements]     New Wikipedia videos being released this week To: Wikimedia Translators translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:     AANLkTikv2q4ksB+7=_D4JxQhsTsvRS8Y52VSZyiSb4-j@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Hi, translators have you seen these video yet? If then, go to YouTube first then read the below :)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikipedia videos being released this week To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

All three videos released to-date already have English language transcriptions:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText:Edit_Button.ogv.en.... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText:Nice_People_MEDIUM.... http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TimedText:Wikipedia_User_Name...

Translation is straightforward without the use of any external tools -- just replace "en" with the language of your choice, copy in the English transcription, and start translating.

For transcription, a very open web-based effort, as Michael points out, is http://universalsubtitles.org/ -- dotsub.com is user-friendly and well-established, but deeply proprietary. But at this point, we don't need transcription, just more translation. :-) So please forward this mail to any relevant lists and help us get more TimedText translations. We can then import them into any of the large distribution channels.

-- Erik M?ller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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