On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Shun Fukuzawa <yukichi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys,

I made Japanese subtitle for the movie on commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Knowledge_for_Everyone_(no_subtitles).webm.ja.srt

Thanks!

But I encountered 2 problems.
* This namespace ignores templates. So I can't put the license template to it. This template is not appeared on the movie.

Not sure what the status on this is, will take a peek later. If you just need a comment that should be fine though...

* It ignores also line breaks of subtitle. Especially, Japanese phrases don't have spaces for reading, so it's hard for audience to understand immediately.

Anyone has a solution to this?

No solution yet, but I've re-opened a bug entry that covered this, which appears to have been mistakenly duplicated to an unrelated bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78511

It's probably not too difficult to fix, but will require a fix in the TimedMediaHandler extension's subtitle display system. Which is a little scary. :) I'll see if I can figure it out...

-- brion