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.

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