Let's help the French Volunteers!

[tony83n_283]

Would you mind if you post this on your profile pages?
We are absolutely against Viki’s policy of adding the vikibot translation on many dramas in French language. We are sure that other languages will be next!

[lutra]

I would appreciate it if Viki would use an “extra segment” for each language they are bot translating.
So in the video tools one can chose the following:

1. BOT - French

2. French by volunteers
   or any other language

3. BOT- English

4. English by volunteers

At least there would be a choice, and I am pretty sure their techies could still be able to compare bot translations to subtitles done by volunteers without making the volunteers desperate. Yes it might need more data and energy, but at least this portion of work would fall into the rightful hands, the ones who are paid for. I don’t see why volunteers should put so much work in editing, when editing never, not in former years and not now was fully honored. Editor isn’t even a position that exists at Viki. There are channel roles from CM, Mod, Subber and Segmenter, but no Editor. Editors achievement on subtitle counting need way more time and are in no way on the same level as subbers. They need more time for fewer subtitles.
If Viki continues with this won’t all subbers become editors sooner or later?
I understand your intention, but i don’t see that this statement on our profile pages will be visible enough.

[lacruiser]

Such a shame!

[tony83n_283]

You are right, it’s not something very visible, but it’s a start. It’s not all about the French teams, it’s about the volunteers from Viki. They will do this with the other languages too, so we should stick together.

[idbarka]

To get BOT translation I don’t need to go to VIKI. Youtube and other pages offer this option as well. But It ALWAYS is your choice, not the only option!
I support French community and posted about it on my profile.

[irmar]

Why did you make a separate thread? I mean, it’s your right to create as many as you like, but it’s confusing to discuss the same matter in different places.

What is vikibot doing in the dramas?

I was doing some editing in a drama and the page turned a BEAUTIFUL LIGHT SKY BLUE, and it says vikibot where the subbers name should be at. Anyone here knows what is this about? I don’t see anything posted. I just wish this site would give us some kind of message as to what-s going on and if we can or can’t do from now on.

https://discussions.viki.com/t/vikibot-translations-announcement/17428

Vikibot's massacre!

Hello everyone, We have just discovered with amazement that the vikibot has struck again! French team of “The Diamonds Dream” fully translated the drama, a long and challenging drama for everyone! But guess what suprise viki just left us? VIKIBOT has modified all our translations on episode 14! We are still editing this drama and we have just seen it! Viki allowed itself to modify, like a little mouse going through a hole, translations that we have done! If we had not looked, we would never h…

A General MESSAGE to the overlords and the keepers of the BOT

To quote Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Theoden King… Let’s try something different. Let’s try actual COMMUNICATION. Like telling us what you’re doing with your bot, rather than MORE SHOCK AND AWE. If you mean to make our “labors” easier, prove it. The bot is NOT making our work easier on the historical dramas and it really has messed up two languages at Condor…(and made MY JOB HARDER trying to figure out what happened and work with peo…

The new ''thing'' going on here at Rviki in translation that shocked me

@bozoli So, that new suggestion system, is the ‘‘bot?’’ It didn’t say vikibot it only said suggestion and next to it was the full translated sub. I wonder who makes these suggestions (subtitles)? Since they have plenty of mistakes in them, I only hope they look into this ‘‘vikibot’’ further. Thank you so much. I would have love some input from you, since you are always very helpful in the discussions sections.

Machine translation from Viki

Message sent on Sept 19th: "Dear CM & French Mods/Subbers of Women Power Team, You are receiving this message from Viki because we noticed that most of these channels have had little to no activity for the last few months pertaining to French subtitles. We want to complete the rest of the unfinished French subtitles on a few channels for our French viewing audience, therefore we will be using French machine translations for “Why Couldn’t You Get Married?.” After completion of the machine tran…

[Viki Community Team] French Machine Translations

Hello community, Thanks for raising your voice in regards to the import of French machine translations on multiple titles on Sept. 19. The Viki Community Team has heard your feedback and has shared it internally. For now, we would like to address the following points: The tool that implements the machine translations does not overwrite existing subtitles, but only fills in where subtitles are missing for the shows it is turned on for. The intent for importing the French machine translati…

[lacruiser]

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