Oh No Robot!
I want Cowbirds in Love to be searchable.
But there is one problem. Computers can’t read comics and transcribing 541 comics is a lot of work for one person to do.
The solution is you! If everyone transcribes a few comics, this could be done really quickly.
Here’s how to help:
1) Find a comic that hasn’t been transcribed yet. Try this to find one.
2) Click on the ‘transcribe this comic’ button to the top left of the comic. I’ve heard people with Safari were having trouble seeing the button, but hopefully you don’t. The transcribe button disappears when a transcription is made, so if you don’t see it, hopefully that’s a good thing.
3) Transcribe away!
Here’s some extra notes on making a good transcription:
*Include mouseover text and the text under the comic.
*Put the title of the comic in the “Title of comic” field.
I have a lot of unnamed characters so if you want to give one a silly name or name it after yourself feel free. I might change it if I already had a name in mind, but otherwise, why not? Just stay consistent.
Lastly, I already announced Oh No Robot on my twitter account and to the facebook group this evening, and we already have over 50 transcriptions. Thanks so much to everyone that has taken the time to improve my little webcomic.
-Sanjay
Oh, if the bottom text is more bloggy than an actual joke, you don’t have to include it.
Use your best judgment.
By Sanjay on Friday, June 19, 2009I transcribed four of them, but I am stupid. I just realized now that I’m finished that I didn’t format dialogue with character names (because I don’t know of many), and I also put the comic titles as meta information in the first line of transcription. I’m not very smart…. Oops…
By Austin on Friday, June 19, 2009Yay!! Finally searchableness!
By Megan on Friday, June 19, 2009Don’t worry about it, Austin.
Even if I lightly edit your transcription to get the formatting good, by you writing out those four comics you still saved me plenty of time.
By Sanjay on Friday, June 19, 2009It really doesn’t matter how you transcribe them, as long as you put the content in. Oh No Robot can only search what you write, and don’t worry about how you write it very much.
By Gabe on Saturday, June 20, 2009