

Initially available only in English, versions in other languages were quickly developed. Wales was influenced by the " spontaneous order" ideas associated with Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian School of economics after being exposed to these ideas by the libertarian economist Mark Thornton. Sanger coined its name as a blend of wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. It is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American non-profit organization funded mainly through donations. It is consistently one of the 10 most popular websites ranked by Similarweb and formerly Alexa as of 2023, Wikipedia was ranked the 5th most popular site in the world according to Semrush. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. I’m not sure if they use the same system for closed captioning or not, but YouTube TV uses a different system as described above.Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL media licensing varies That will obviously change as the system develops. YouTube is playing around with AI for subtitles and it isn’t very good yet. AI can either perform captioning in advance or on the fly. Once refined to a reliable standard, this will take over from the two manual methods as it will be cheaper, faster, and hopefully, more accurate than it is now.

This technology is still in its infancy and often gets things wrong. Increasingly, studios are using AI to automatically generate subtitles and closed captions. These are then embedded into the broadcast, ready for use. Scripted shows will often create subtitles and closed captions in post-production using the script and interpretation of what happens on screen. This is then embedded into the broadcast to be picked up by your player. They listen to what’s going on and manually type the subtitles and sound cues into their stenograph machine. In some unscripted shows, like quiz shows or interviews where you don’t necessarily know what’s coming next, a human stenographer may create closed captions as the show unfolds.
