[Translators-l] Call for translations: Subtitles for Wikipedia Videos

Takashi OTA supertakot+translators at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 23:56:42 UTC 2010


Forgive me continuing post,

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Takashi OTA
<supertakot+translators at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi lists,
>
> I've already finished four subtitles of Japanese versions, however, have
> one question about [[File:Wikipedia_User_Name_MEDIUM.ogv.en.srt]].

> It seems a good footage to show Wikimedia projects have been
> made by multi-ethnic and multi-cultural people. Amazing. BTW,
> these user names are originally all written in alphabet and numeric
> characters? I kept all usernames unchanged because these are
> proper noun, or unique ID, so I thought changing them is not
> respecting those users.

(So, as you may imagine, what I have to "translate" were very limited
sentences. :-)

> But if some of their user names are written
> other characters, describing them as original spelling is not a bad idea.

I mistook where to insert parenthesized lines so that does not make sense :-)

--Takashi



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