[Foundation-l] subtitles for Wikimedia videos

Marcus Buck me at marcusbuck.org
Mon Sep 27 21:15:30 UTC 2010


  The videos Wikimedia recently produced are available on Youtube, 
Facebook and several other sites. Can somebody from the Foundation who 
has access to the videos update them and include the subtitles in 
several different languages that were provided by Wikimedians on Commons 
(see the file description pages of the four videos in 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:September_2010_Wikipedia_Videos>)?

The default video player on Commons does ot support subtitles. They are 
only available through the mwEmbed extension. But Videos on Youtube, 
Facebook etc. support subtitles natively.

That would make it much easier for non-English Wikimedians to direct the 
interested public to the subtitled video in the respective language.

Thanks.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox



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