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Create a visual VisualEditor plugin tool or Visual CC to add/edit video captions (Timed Text) to Wikimedia Commons
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In a similar way to :

It would include automatic captions and user made captions.

It must be visual,

https://subtitle-horse.com/

using the original Video in Commons as the base video to add the captions.

There are lots of videos needing captions:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_needing_subtitles

And the process is nor easy:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Timed_Text

'''Nor visual''', as https://subtitle-horse.com/ and others are (but they do not allow add captions to Commons videos, nor automatic transfer to Commons TimedText: space.

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BoldLuis created this task.May 2 2020, 12:59 AM
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Reedy added projects: VisualEditor, TimedMediaHandler-TimedText.May 2 2020, 1:06 AM
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Aklapper renamed this task from Create a visual VisualEditor plugin tool or Visual CC to add/edit captions to Wikimedia Commons to Create a visual VisualEditor plugin tool or Visual CC to add/edit video captions (Timed Text) to Wikimedia Commons.May 2 2020, 8:56 AM

@BoldLuis: I assume this is about video subtitles (Timed Text) and not general metadata captions.

I don't know what "Visual CC" stands for.

JTannerWMF added projects: StructuredDataOnCommons, Structured-Data-Backlog.May 5 2020, 3:38 PM
JTannerWMF subscribed.

I believe this may be a Structured Data task

JTannerWMF moved this task from To Triage to Triaged on the VisualEditor board.May 5 2020, 3:38 PM
CBogen moved this task from Triage to Multimedia on the Structured-Data-Backlog board.Aug 25 2020, 8:12 PM
TheDJ subscribed.Feb 18 2022, 1:03 PM

BTW. It seems much simpler to do this as a wmflabs project that is integrated into core, than doing it in VE. This is an entire separate app in terms of functionality there is almost nothing WMF/MediaWiki specific about it, other than where to store the subtitles and where to retrieve the video subtitles from

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