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There's an issue where the actual transcript text around the two-minute section headers become incorporated into the header itself? For example, you can see it in DH&J ep. 276: https://nerdfighteria.info/v/975476761/ and DH&J ep. 277: https://nerdfighteria.info/v/981206830/ or really any of the newer transcribed DH&J episodes.
I think it could be easily fixed if a line break "<br>" was automatically added before and after each section header? So then the text is separated from the headers.
A more detailed explanation:
The transcript should look like:
(0:00) to (2:00)
[transcript text]
(2:00) to (4:00)
[transcript text]
The section headers ("===== (x:xx) to (x:xx) ====") are inside the paragraphs so some of the transcript ends up becoming part of the header.
The editor then looks like this:
[transcript text]
[transcript text] ===== (2:00) to (4:00) ===== [transcript text]
[transcript text]
And the displayed transcript then looks like this:
[transcript text]
[large transcript text] (2:00) to (4:00) [large transcript text]
[transcript text]
The large transcript text ends up being really hard to read and it's hard to figure out what section you're in, so preventing this can really help with readability etc.
There's some kind of glitch somewhere that makes the headers appear on the same line as the next paragraph, when it expects headers to be on their own line. I haven't fixed the glitch that makes this happen, or fixed the transcripts that this has happened to, but I did make the wiki care less about it. So it should be displaying properly now.
That does bring up a good question though. I have a feeling that removing content warnings might be broken.
The 'Monopoly and Academic Decathalon' episode appears to be missing?
I'm sort of new to transciribing videos how does it work? I wrote a transcript for one of Hank's videos for Vlogbrothers what happens now? Do other people check it and then it gets uploaded?
The transcript you saved will automatically get spellchecked, and users will be able to correct any possible misspellings it found. Someone at Complexly might add the transcript as a subtitle file on Youtube, but I'm not sure if that's a thing their doing much at the moment.
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- If you look at the "nearly complete channels" on the homepage, you can hover over a channel's name and it'll show an estimate of how much time it would take to finish transcribing that channel.
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- I made some security/privacy changes a few weeks ago that could potentially cause issues with older browsers or computers. I think I made a mistake at the time and the change caused problems with more browsers than intended. That should be fixed now.
- You can now download fancy PDF exports of certain transcripts. If you go to any Crash Course category page (e.g. Crash Course World History), you should see a "Download transcripts" link, that should download a zip of all the transcripts.
- The exports are only enabled for Crash Course's categories right now, but if anyone thinks other channels should get this feature, feel free to suggest. The PDFs and Zips are updated each night. I'm still working on making the PDFs look a little nicer, but it's pretty usable right now.
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- You can force it to copy the transcript for a specific video if you want. There's now a "YT" button in the editor. When you click it, it'll check Youtube for a transcript, and if it finds one, will copy it into the editor box. You can then save/complete the transcript.
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- I'm working on cleaning up the channels. There are a lot of channels on the wiki, and too many of them are tiny, dead, or otherwise not being useful.