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You should add this in suggestions. It would be a good idea for an admin feature, to be able to run the spell checker on the video once, change anything that needs it, and then blanket mark the rest of the video as ok. Sci show has it too, but mostly with scientific names or terms that the dictionary doesn't recognize.

I should probably do something about that. Adding functionality based on categories is a little tricky (which is why I'm looking into, but hesitant about, the suggestion to assign transcript priorities based on category).

Another idea may be just having a button that says "Ignore all misspellings for this video." This would also come in handy for foreign language situations. There are a couple Miscellaneous videos where John is visiting Germany or The Netherlands, and those get transcribed directly into German/Dutch/etc. So it could be useful in those situations as well to have a button to remove all flagged misspellings from the spell checker.

Freakazette's suggestion is kind of a middle ground, so that's another good option.

The ignore all thing would def not have to be based on category. It would be super useful not just on outtakes but also in the gaming videos and sci show and crashcourse. Honestly, most vids have some stumbling and gibberish, just to a lesser extent.

And changing priority a little based on category was just an idea. It sounds like it probably wouldn't be worth the work to code it. I just didn't like the idea of people having to ignore the "priorities" to get to videos they consider more important (or maybe just more fun/easier to transcribe? I do that.) but now it seems like everyone's got their own system to which videos they work on, and I think that's ok.

I don't know if there's an official policy. The rule of thumb I've been using is to add it to the dictionary if it's an actual word and will be used several times and possibly in other videos. If it's nonsense or only used once, I mark it as ignore.

For most foreign words, I'd say ignore them. But gracias (not sure about sacar) is a pretty common loan word in English, so it's fine to add that to the dictionary. One thing about adding foreign words: just make sure to add the correct spelling. "Gracias" is simple, but anything with umlauts, accents, etc. should include those.

That said, Freakazette's standard is basically what I've told people to use in the past.

1. It's nice if you include it, but it's not necessary, and I think most transcripts don't at the moment.

2. Unfortunately not. I don't think YouTube allows you to download the auto-generated captions. However, Valerie provides the script for some videos. In those cases, she adds the script, and it's just a matter of watching through the video to make sure they stay on-script and make any corrections as needed.

3. Translating is better done on YouTube, but transcribing should be done here. Transcribing here makes the transcripts searchable, and makes it easier to manage which videos are complete and which still need work. Most of the wiki's traffic actually comes from teachers linking to videos/categories (especially Crash Course World History), and that'll probably just increase as Crash Course expands.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

Thank you! :)

Actually, I did think of one more question. Are the trascripts used primarily to consult without the video or to make captions? It makes a difference for what sounds/actions I include.

For CrashCourse and SciShow, transcripts are used for both purposes, but probably more often as reference.

For other channels, it's mostly about making captions.

I think it's a good idea to include on-screen text in the transcription. If I'm reading along while listening to a video, I think I'd prefer being able to continue reading a quote or something in the transcription, instead of switching to reading the video and then back.

That's a good question, and I was thinking the same thing when Hank announced that. There aren't consistent criteria for that right now. It's something like "channels Hank & John own, regularly take part in, or substantially contribute to." Another criteria might be "managed by EcoGeek/DFTBA employees," since that makes it more likely that the transcripts will be used as captions.

At first I was against adding it, because I don't know what his role as "executive producer" entails. Did he come up with the idea? Does he come up with video ideas for the channel? Or does he simply fund it and promote it?

So I don't know. Anyone else have input on whether Cereal Time should be added?

I don't think he has any less say in Cereal Time than he did with LBD or How to adult, both of which are transcribed on this wiki.

Personally the only reason I can see not to is that it's ~20 minutes of video every weekday which adds a lot of work, but if there are enough people to keep up then there's no reason not to add them.

Some of mine are still going to spam, but fewer than used to.

Email notification bug:

Relative links are broken. For example, the link to the split transcript from a recent update goes to "splittranscript/105", which from the discussion page works just fine. However, in the email, this ended up being a broken link.

Oops, thanks for letting me know. That actually looks like an issue with me creating that post (accidentally used a relative URL) than with the email sending.

The only major issue that I noticed was that after finishing a section and marking it as complete, it didn't update until I refreshed the page. I'm not sure if that is supposed to happen, but I have to be honest, it made me a little nervous since I transcribed it all in one go. 

There was some delays every now and then with the unpaused player stopping for a bit after a keyboard shortcut was used, but it was really small so I wouldn't say that it is a major issue. Though, the delay occurred more if shortcuts were used back to back, like rewind twice. Though again, that isn't really an issue if the transcriber is conscious of this and spaces out their shortcut use by a little bit. 

All in all I really liked how it was separated into small chunks of time and thought that it functioned well. 

I also like that it's separated into two minute chunks. I think it works better than the five minute chunks that the Ear Biscuit podcasts are boken into.

My only concern is that it appears that no-one can edit a completed section. This would make it difficult to correct spelling mistakes in other peoples' sections. Also it seems that this could be abused by spammers. They could write anything they wanted, say that it's completed and no-one would be able to fix it. Someone may also accidentally mark it as complete and wouldn't be able to correct their mistake. I'm assuming that it can only be edited as a whole when the entire thing is fully transcribed.

I could be wrong about this feature but that's how it appeared to me when I was using it.

I like the shortcuts and they seem to work fine. I didn't have any delay when using them.

Thanks for testing it, everyone.

dreamer96 - It should auto-save and update every few seconds. There could be an issue with updating; I already fixed a few save-and-update related issues after you tested, but I'm not sure if that would've fixed the issues you were seeing.

I'll do so more testing with the keyboard shortcuts. I don't think there's anything I can improve with my code, but there's a lot going on that could cause lag.

videodude13 - Yeah, I'm trying to find the optimal chunk length. Admins can create a Split Transcript from any video/podcast that doesn't already have a transcript, and when you do that you can specify how many chunks you want or how long you want the chunks to be, so we can play around with that. But two minutes is looking pretty good.

I do need to add the ability for admins (or possibly everyone) to re-open a completed chunk. I started coding that, but haven't finished it yet.

The way I envisioned this working is that, after all the sections have been marked Complete, the Split page becomes inactive, and users can edit the transcript like normal on the video/audio's page. So that, combined with admins reopening chunks, should take care of spammers or typos.

This may be more information than you want, but here's how the Priority works:

• Each channel has its own priority value. Channels like Vlogbrothers have a higher priority than, say, hankschannel. When a video gets added to the wiki, that video's priority is set to its channel's priority.
• This, however, can be overridden. Individual videos can be assigned a higher or lower priority by an admin. This appears to be what's going on here -- an admin probably wanted to get a few specific videos transcribed, so they upped their priority. That was an unlisted vlogbrothers video, so it hadn't been getting much attention.
• After the priority value is taken into account, any videos with the same priority will displayed oldest-first.

There aren't separate priorities for each language. So an admin probably wanted a few videos transcribed into English, and now those videos are showing up as high-priority in other languages.

ok, that explains it. I thought it was weird that someone would think an old hardly-viewed VB vid should be the 2nd to ever be translated to Japanese. :D