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Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Dental Torque Wrench
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@DannyS712: Sorry, I should have used Sandbox for experimenting. Will ensure that it won't happen again
February 2019
editHello, I'm Donner60. An edit you recently made to Wikipedia:MEDSKL/Acute vision loss seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, the sandbox is the best place to do so. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 02:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Demo edits?
editYour pattern of editing at Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Dengue_fever seems odd. If you're really testing the system, couldn't you use your sandbox rather than article space? — soupvector (talk) 13:29, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
- @soupvector Ohh, [VideoWiki] is a new project, I have been giving a lot of demos explaining the concept. I only make demo edit to this file, and more precisely the same edit (editing the first line).I revert the edit after the demo. However, you are right, Its better to show a sandbox edit, I guess. --Pratik.pks (talk) 14:08, 6 September 2019 (UTC)-
- I am glad you're doing demos, but I would not want anyone to see the demo and think that doing such edits in article space is good practice - it's not. — soupvector (talk) 14:18, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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Videowiki assistance request
editHi Pratik. A script I made (Wikipedia:VideoWiki/WikiJournal_PDF_formatting) doesn't seem to be functioning when I try to preview it. Could you check and see if I've dome something wrong? I've previously just uploaded a full video with timedtext (example), but I'd like to use videowiki since it should be more flexible. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 05:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC) ---Will look into it and fix it by Sunday? will keep you updated.@T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:5686:7DB7:2829:D6CB:230B:B9EC (talk) 06:18, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
- Seems to be working now so thank you if it was your doing, or perhaps I just needed to be more patient. The next issue is that in this example, videowiki skips to the next section as soon as it finishes reading out the words, rather than playing the full media clip. Is there a way to get it to play the full media clip before moving to the next section? (also noted here). Thanks again! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:43, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, we fixed that issue @T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk :) Hmm, that's a good feature - we will work on that and get back to you by the end of this week (20th hopefully). Will keep you updated on this or for all I know - you might find the solution fixed even before I mention it. Pratik.pks (talk) 14:53, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hi there, did that feature happen to get added? I'm still keen to get this script working fully before I start making more with lots of video clips. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:00, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- @T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)Apologies for the late reply. Yes, you can now add a video without text, and it will work :) Do let me know if you have any other feature requests or if you face any issues. Apologies again for the dealy in getting backPratik.pks (talk) 13:55, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- Aha, that's a useful work-around. Ideally, it'd be possible to have a 30 second video clip with text displayed for the first 10 seconds, then the next 20 seconds silent. For example this section (55s video, 16s text) - do you think that'll be possible? Otherwise I'll use alternating static text slides then silent video clips as the backup option. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:21, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- @T.Shafee(Evo&Evo): So users normally drag and drop an entire Commons video which is usally very long (Example: A 2 minutes video) to a 10 second text slide. So we automatically take the first 10 seconds of the video and don't show the remaining part. Ideally,if everyone just puts the appropriate amount of video bit - it will be ideal to do you just mentioned.
- Aha, that's a useful work-around. Ideally, it'd be possible to have a 30 second video clip with text displayed for the first 10 seconds, then the next 20 seconds silent. For example this section (55s video, 16s text) - do you think that'll be possible? Otherwise I'll use alternating static text slides then silent video clips as the backup option. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 01:21, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- @T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)Apologies for the late reply. Yes, you can now add a video without text, and it will work :) Do let me know if you have any other feature requests or if you face any issues. Apologies again for the dealy in getting backPratik.pks (talk) 13:55, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- Hi there, did that feature happen to get added? I'm still keen to get this script working fully before I start making more with lots of video clips. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:00, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, we fixed that issue @T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk :) Hmm, that's a good feature - we will work on that and get back to you by the end of this week (20th hopefully). Will keep you updated on this or for all I know - you might find the solution fixed even before I mention it. Pratik.pks (talk) 14:53, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Maybe a workaround for your use case could be that you crop the first 10 seconds of your video and put it along with the text and the remaning video you can keep it as a video slide (Without any text) as we now support that. Thoughts?Pratik.pks (talk) 06:04, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
- That's probably a doable workaround, but of course it'll make it more complex to edit (e.g. if the text amount is decreased, parts of the first cropped video would be omitted). T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 06:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
- Ahh good point. Pratik.pks (talk) 06:13, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:VideowikiNonTTS
editTemplate:VideowikiNonTTS has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 09:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)