Nik: Publishing conventions migrated from the project's HTML guides

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Publishing conventions migrated from the project's HTML guides

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'''Publishing guide''' for [[A Few Milliseconds Of 2073]] — the conventions that apply to every episode. The paste-ready title, description and post copy for a given episode live on that episode's own page.

''This replaced two self-contained HTML files that used to sit in the project repo. They kept going stale — at one point they listed episodes as "upload pending" months after those episodes had shipped — because nothing ever made anyone open them. A wiki page gets corrected when you visit it to copy from it.''

==Episode pages==
Each page carries a synopsis, the cast, watch links, and a '''Publishing copy''' section with every string you paste into an upload form.

* [[Two of Me]] · [[New Human Language]] · [[Planet Killer]] · [[Pleistocene Park]] · [[The Mars Disaster]] · [[The Ones Who Didn't Ask]] · [[The Persistence Template]]

==Channels==
One channel per language, so each reads as a local show rather than a translated feed.
* '''English:''' [https://www.youtube.com/@AFewMillisecondsOf2073 @AFewMillisecondsOf2073]
* '''Español:''' [https://www.youtube.com/@UnosMilisegundosDe2073 @UnosMilisegundosDe2073]
* '''Français:''' [https://www.youtube.com/@QuelquesMillisecondesDe2073 @QuelquesMillisecondesDe2073]
* '''日本語:''' [https://www.youtube.com/@2073NoSuMilliByo @2073NoSuMilliByo]
* '''中文:''' [https://www.youtube.com/@2073NianDeJiHaomiao @2073NianDeJiHaomiao]

==YouTube upload settings==
Identical for every video:
* '''Made for kids:''' No
* '''Age restriction:''' No
* Upload the matching <code>.srt</code> as a same-language subtitle track. '''Always upload the sidecar''' — where an mp4 carries a muxed caption track YouTube does not reliably index it, and the windowed-capture renders carry none at all.
* Add to the channel's series playlist.

==Title format==
{| class="wikitable"
! Language !! Format
|-
| English || <code><Episode Title> | A Few Milliseconds of 2073 (Ep. N)</code> — title first, for click-through
|-
| Español || <code><Título> | Unos Milisegundos de 2073 (Ep. N)</code>
|-
| Français || <code><Titre> | Quelques Millisecondes de 2073 (Ép. N)</code>
|-
| 日本語 || <code>2073年のほんの数ミリ秒 — 第N話「<タイトル>」</code> — digit year, Japanese series name
|-
| 中文 || <code><标题> | 2073年的几毫秒（第N集）</code>
|}

'''Known inconsistency:''' EN Ep 1 is live as <code>A Few Milliseconds of 2073 — Ep. 1: "Two of Me"</code>, the early series-first draft format. Everything since uses title-first. Worth editing in Studio.

==Description footer==
The series name always appears in the video's own language — never leave the English name in a non-English description.
* '''EN:''' <code>A Few Milliseconds of 2073 — a non-dystopian sci-fi short series.</code>
* '''JA:''' <code>非ディストピアSF短編シリーズ『2073年のほんの数ミリ秒』。</code>

==Hashtags==
* '''EN:''' <code>#SciFi #AI #ScienceFiction #2073 #ShortFilm</code>
* '''JA:''' <code>#SF #AI #サイエンスフィクション #2073 #短編</code>

==Fourth wall==
"Ep. N" / "第N話" is fine in titles and descriptions — that is viewer-facing metadata, outside the fiction. The hard rule only forbids a node or the Narrator saying "Episode N" '''on screen'''.

==Facebook==
Facebook is a full second home, not a mirror. Post the '''full landscape episode natively''', then the '''vertical teaser reel''' with a pinned comment linking back to the full FB video.

# Upload the full episode as native FB video. Caption = the '''full post''' text from the episode page.
# Copy the new FB video's URL.
# Post the teaser reel. Caption = the '''reel post''' text.
# Pin a comment on the reel = the '''pinned comment''', pasting the FB video URL from step 2.

'''Do not reuse the YouTube description.''' Same voice, but FB-tuned: hook first (FB truncates after ~125 characters), one or two hashtags at most, and the link points at YouTube as the canonical home. The Ep 4 reel was captioned with the YouTube description verbatim — 1,023 characters opening on series boilerplate instead of a hook. Don't repeat that.

==Caption debt (open)==
All 21 local caption files were repaired on 2026-08-09 — full coverage to the last frame, no markup leakage. '''The live tracks on YouTube are still the old ones.''' Replacing them is a Studio upload per video and needs no re-render:
* '''Truncated closing narration''' — Eps 1–3 in Español, Français, 日本語 and 中文, plus Ep 4 Français. Between 19 and 55 seconds of each episode's ending had no subtitle. A 2026-08-01 fix restored English only.
* '''Markdown markers''' — asterisks from the scripts rendered literally (<code>*continuity*</code>, <code>**medicine**</code>) in every English track.

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