Community Wishlist/Wishes/Video & audio chapters (jump to timestamp)
Description
It would be very useful if in the file description of Spoken Wikipedia audio files there were links to jump to the different sections of the article. If one is only interested in a particular section of the article one could jump to it directly and listen to only that. It also gives some orientation where one is currently at when listening to articles and allows to resume more easily or to share a the link with timestamp more easily.
With videos it is possible to specify a start time of the video – see c:Commons:Video#Temporal media fragments.
Linking to chapters is possible on YouTube and probably many users have already noticed some ways this can be useful. For example, I'd like to link the timestamps in the description here and add timestamp links for the different exercises shown here. Many videos already have timestamps in their description but they aren't clickable.
The temporal media fragments works when appending something like ?start=00:26 to an URL to a video on WMC but links to different chapter/section timestamps in the file description would only work if it worked via #start=00:26.
- Related issue: Importing chapters from YouTube videos in the Video2Commons tool
- Related discussion
- Related proposal: A proper audio player, it would need such a timestamp feature which could also be added before there is a new audio player.
- Related proposal: Software for turning articles into spoken Wikipedia audios using T2S AI voice – among the things this software would do would be adding clickable timestamps for every section of the article to the file description
Assigned focus area
Media formats, editing, and display
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons
Affected users
Wikipedia users, Future Wikimedia Commons users
Other details
- Created: 18:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Last updated: 16:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Author: Prototyperspective (talk)