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"Claude Almansi started a topic 2 months ago (2013-06-14) [Update July 2, 2013: the original title of this discussion, as posted mid-June 2013, was: "Let's beta-test the imminent new subtitle editor before it is released". In fact, on June 6 Dean Jansen had announced it's release for "in the next week or so", then on June 14 he wrote that the new editor was "still very much in beta, [...] still under heavy development", mentioning "necessary confirmation tests and modifications to ensure a smooth transition". (...) I suggest that questions about how the editor works be added in comments to this thread. But for reporting possible bugs and issues I made a Google Drive form , whose replies go into a spreadsheet that can be viewed, downloaded and commented on by anyone who has the link (no sign in required). This way Amara developers too should be able to download it e.g. as .csv file and reuse the data in whatever beta-testing program they are using on their own. It is important that we actual subtitlers beta-test innovations to the Amara software, because developers, not being subtitlers themselves, cannot properly assess the impact of some changes they make: see the Team moderation: let's learn together from the Friday 13 team thread."

Google Drive form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1x_akD-_fBW4aRPoJq4jyG07OQ5GAGYdZxEjbgTogaXI/viewform Google Drive spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApuzSw0MoY82dDlPYnB3cUlwQlNJV2VVWS1XSy1DSWc#gid=0 Forum topic about the Friday 13 team: http://support.amara.org/support/discussions/topics/5241

"András Fuchs started a topic 6 months ago (2013-02-20) My team of translators often finds itself in a situation when the original transcript is out of sync, missing, misspelled or shows something other than what the speaker said. Sometimes we fix the English subtitle as well, but then the other subtitles in different languages which are already started (or finished) might have problems. It would be great to combine the subtitle versioning feature (planned to implement) with subtitle rating and/or approval. Amara should limit the translators in a way, that nobody could start a language specific subtitle until the original transcript is 100% finished and approved by let's say at least 3 independent users (or even native speakers). I think this step would increase the quality of the subtitles greatly."

Dean's rely: "... We've thought some about the idea of requiring a translation to be complete, before allowing translations to be based from it. However, in certain cases it is better to allow translation directly from the dialogue in a video. For example, during the Arab spring, we had a number of politically sensitive videos which were done in spoken Arabic - for the translators, speed was the most important thing, so needing to wait for an Arabic transcript, before they could translate into English, would have been a major disadvantage. We are working towards a simplified system for peer review that will first appear on teams and later become available for every video. ..." Mine: mentioned problem with autocaptions in the - now deleted - Coursera team.

"Enrique Govea started a topic 5 months ago I received a nice email with the NEW and old TEXT after another person on my team reviewed my subtitles. But I had to click on the link "Compare the new version to the last version." in order to see the changes on RED. Could we receive the emial with text already on RED? Could we approve/denied each new subtitle individually? Right now we have a system like, it is ALL or nothing. "

PCF Support comment: "Thanks for these suggestion, Enrique - I'll pass them on to the product team. --Dean" In the main post, the link to http://www.amara.org/videos/diffing/446887/446721/ on "Compare the new version to the last version." doesn't work anymore, because the URLs for subtitles changed after the June 23 2013 upgrade? See "The URLs of several subtitle sets have changed. Another aftershock of the June 29, 2013 upgrade?" http://support.amara.org/support/discussions/topics/26350 .