irmar
September 21, 2019, 8:40am
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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.
https://discussions.viki.com/t/what-is-vikibot-doing-in-the-dramas/23066
https://discussions.viki.com/t/vikibot-translations-announcement/17428
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…
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…
https://discussions.viki.com/t/the-new-thing-going-on-here-at-rviki-in-translation-that-shocked-me/23366/3
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…
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…
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