Well, for instance, if you go to Que sera sera, here https://www.viki.com/tv/29619c-que-sera-sera
you will see on the right the episode list, with the percentage of “done”. And you will see that the first episodes are captioned at 100% but the others are not. So it definitely needs help captioning (it has hardsubs, this is written on the cover page).
You click on the team name and it opens up a page with all the moderators:
https://www.viki.com/tv/29619c-que-sera-sera#modal-volunteer
There, you can see the Channel Manager, who is tompark (if you click on his profile and go to “Recent contributions” you will see that he was last seen on Viki a year ago)
https://www.viki.com/users/tompark/overview
and the English Moderator, who is marooya (last seen on Viki two years ago).
https://www.viki.com/users/marooya/overview
Now you understand why the drama is stagnant.
To find what’s happening, you go on the last episode they’ve been working on, which is n.3
You click on the little pencil on the lower right corner of the video and it takes you to the Subtitle Editor. There will be something telling you that if you want to contribute please write to the moderator, but just ignore it for now.
In Subtitle Editor, you will see that the English is locked. Only the English moderators and the CM can unlock it. But these people are no longer around,
Go to Activities: Last activity was some Other Language subber, nine months ago.
Go to Team Discussion
https://subber.viki.com/translations/1086501
You will see that the last message was by a poor segmenter who says: “Trying to segment episode 14 but I cannot because it is locked”
Now you understand why this drama has stalled. There’s nothing that can be done except writing on Viki and asking them to appoint you as English moderator. Of course you being a new volunteer, you cannot apply for that, you have to first complete 3000 subs. So for now let’s leave this option, just keep it in mind for when you have.
If you go to Good Job, Good Job,
you will see that it has 40 episodes and they are stuck at n.8.
https://www.viki.com/tv/29620c-good-job-good-job#modal-episode
Maybe you don’t want to commit to a 40 episode drama, though. What if the drama sucks and you don’t like it at all? Better look for something with 16 episodes to start with.
If you go to Friend, Our Legend,
https://www.viki.com/tv/29474c-friend-our-legend
by clicking on the team name you will see this page:
https://www.viki.com/tv/29474c-friend-our-legend#modal-volunteer
Channel Manager: rocsanna. Her recent contributions are 2 years ago as subtitles are concerned, but she is more active as moderator and channel manager, so it would be worth writing to her.
Let’s click on the English mod, dasfl49:
https://www.viki.com/users/dasfl49/overview
Yay, he or she is a segmenter on Haechi, an on-air drama, and just made a segment 11 hours ago, so it means she or he is active. You definitely can send a message.
The other English moderator is tish_afi. Let’s click:
https://www.viki.com/users/tish_afi/overview
Ah, that’s good as well. Has been segmenting 4 days ago. You definitely can send a message.
I just wanted to show you the way to research projects and people and find out what you want.
Another thing: hard subs are not always perfect, they may need editing as well, and to be made to Viki formatting practices.
You may find use in this reference Google sheet I made. Small details like brackets and musical notes may be different from moderator to moderator, but the main stuff is common to all of us.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17yiuOkFXkrF7a-jUazj5Rh4_YyqVYEggJX_hey_0_xg/edit
This one is Korean reference. Terms and stuff that you may want to know.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11qeGZ1-JIV7PMe7NpYIT7W6H24dT_VoShUZXC-98PUY/edit#gid=0
Finally, this is for copy pasting the subs of each episode once they’ve been finalized, to have them all together in once place, for continuity in flashbacks, titles, nicknames and spelling.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wyBeoB4FUNLcEH5F4qeeclrHYe9mf9LxLSrkNOcCcK8/edit#gid=1025372739
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. I am not a segmenter or a subber so I don’t know the full process of becoming a subber or segmenter but if you click the link to the channel of The Brightest Star In The Sky and then click channel manager you can contact the channel manager of the channel and ask them. This is also the @ of the channel manger 