[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikipedia videos being released this week

[Michael Dale]

 The wikimedia community has started translating some of the videos
using free software tools and uploading to be playback on the site with
the mutlimedia beta.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nice_People_MEDIUM.ogv?withJS:MediaWiki:MwEmbed.js

This has a long way to go to match google /youtube ease of translation
and I agree videos posted to youtube by the foundation should include
the English transcripts uploaded so the automatic google thing can do
its magic.

But in terms of our home-brew commons solution we are working with
universal subtitles.org to enable a best of breed open source solution
for collaborative subtitles. ( like translatewiki.net it will probably
take hints from google translate to help transcribers )

We should have a more clear roadmap for such efforts after the subtitle
summit later next week:
http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/2010/08/06/open-subtitles-design-summit/

peace,
--michael

On 09/24/2010 09:11 AM, Bence Damokos wrote:
> Hi,
> For localisation purposes can we somehow enable the YouTube captions system
> which would allow human-checked and translated subtitles to be uploaded next
> to the videos? (For that to work, the account owner has to do some magic I
> think under YouTube's settings panels and then an actually intelligent
> English version has to be provided that can than be translated using some
> hidden Google tool.)
> Last I checked the set-up process was a bit difficult to set up, but then
> the actual translation could be done fairly easily. If we choose Youtube as
> a distribution channel, I think we should go the extra mile and utilize its
> internationalization capabilities to truly reflect our values.
>
> Best regards,
> Bence
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jay Walsh <Jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> This week the Foundation is excited to be releasing four separate videos
>> shot at the recent Wikimania Conference in Gdansk, Poland.  The first video
>> 'Username' is now posted on the WM Commons:
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_User_Name_MEDIUM.ogv
>>
>> Later today the Foundation will be releasing the videos on a few other
>> platforms as well, specifically to increase public visibility:
>> http://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
>> http://identi.ca/wikipedia
>> http://www.youtube.com/wikimediafoundation
>> http://vimeo.com/wmfoundation/
>>
>> I'll be posting more about the links on the Wikimedia blog later this
>> morning (San Francisco time) blog.wikimedia.org
>>
>> And maybe some others.
>>
>> What are these videos?
>> They were originally produced to complement the public outreach work going
>> on now (and in the future) and to provide a short, energetic clip for folks
>> to use in all sorts of presentations.  A very good example of that would be
>> in Sue's keynote presentation from Wikimania, which some of you may have
>> seen.  We hope everyone in the movement may find them useful, and we're
>> particularly hopeful that they can be easily localized and shared even more
>> widely.  They shed a new light on the passionate people behind our projects.
>>
>> Who made them?
>> The clips were created for the Wikimedia Foundation (led mostly by
>> Communications and Public Outreach) by a team that's been working with the
>> Foundation over the past year. They were directed by Jelly Helm, produced by
>> Noah Stanik, shot by DP Reed Harkness, and edited by Sarah Marcus. The music
>> is by Portland, Oregon based musician Matt Carey. The Germany-based film
>> production crew Living Colour was an essential partner in bringing
>> everything together at the shoot in Gdansk, Poland, and Fenton
>> Communications, who have been supporting the Foundation over the past year,
>> were our agency partners in pulling this project together. We also owe the
>> organizers of 2010's Wikimania conference a great deal of thanks for helping
>> us sort out the production on the ground and for letting us borrow
>> participants for short interviews.
>>
>> What's next?
>> The remaining clips will be posted on Commons and other video sharing sites
>> through Friday. Once they're all announced we'll share another note with all
>> of the links. You can follow the progress and hear what the public thinks on
>> identi.ca and twitter.  We hope to see the videos make an appearance in
>> media and other blogs too.
>>
>> Hope you enjoy!
>>
>> --
>> Jay Walsh
>> Head of Communications
>> WikimediaFoundation.org
>> blog.wikimedia.org
>> +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw
>>
>>
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