universalsubtitles

toc Some notes about Universal Subtitles http://www.universalsubtitles.org/ =General= Project of the [|Participatory Culture Foundation]. -> ethical mission; akin to other projects like Wikipedia, free software (which it is made of) =Participatory= Participatory via subprojects: 1. and 2. create an atmosphere favorable to 3. =Collaboration-geared tool= Collaboration is facilitated by (to be continued 1319580406) =Short URL= Shorter URL for this page: http://bit.ly/univsubs
 * 1) official: see those listed in http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/volunteer/
 * 2) semi-official, i.e. approved by univsub: subtitling teams like http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/ocuppy-wall-street/ (it would be nice to have a page listing them all, though)
 * 3) user-generated: a group of users informally start and foster the subtitling of a or several videos via social media.
 * separating first captioning in 3 different stages (transcribing, synchronizing, reviewing)
 * wiki-like history, which makes it possible to revert to a former version if someone goofs, and also gives credit to all who have collaborated, with the possibility to track what they have contributed