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Is now up for featured article review, and needs to have additional references and citations to maintain its status. please come by and take a look! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:53, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
how can i add these spoken articles to podcast of iTunes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.151.182 (talk) 11:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to get really involved in this Spoken Wikipedia project, in as many areas as I can, from contributing full articles, to pronunciations, to just reviewing other user contributions. I figured that I would start with reviewing, just to familiarise myself with the standards out there already and to clear up some of the backlog. I've come across an unreviewed recording of a biiiiig article which I think is very sub-standard – the quality is great, but the reader flounders far too regularly and is missing the Wikipedia intro and end disclaimer. I'm happy to review it and point out its faults, but I think they are severe enough to warrant a deletion of the audio altogether – where do I stand on this? I'm not sure how active this project is. How useful are these reviews proving? Are the reviews reviewed by admins who can make the decision on whether to keep the content or not? P.S. I'm new to Wikipedia, so apologies for any errors or mis-understanings! Thanks :) Maedin (talk) 19:32, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm terribly new to this whole editing thing on Wikipedia (other than a few minor edits), and especially new to spoken articles.
I'd greatly appreciate any feedback on my first spoken article, Christopher Cox.
Hi, I'm a new contributor to this project. Over the last couple of days, I've submitted pronunciations for deity and have recorded the article Isaac Newton. Since I'm new, it's probably not very good, so is there somewhere where I can voluntarily submit my recording for review? A.C. Norman (talk) 09:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Cheers for that: it's good to know that my recordings weren't too wide of the mark! A.C. Norman (talk) 11:02, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey! I just recorded my first spoken article. Its a partial of the article, as its a long article. Id greatly appreciated if someone could review it before i continue with the rest of the article. Thanks!! Wiki Roxor (talk) 02:37, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks a bunch! I didnt notice the 'hums' before but Ill definitely work on fixing the tech issues up asap. Wiki Roxor (talk) 13:47, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I've recently begun recording spoken articles. My first has been a very short one just to get my feet wet, so to speak - Begotten. Could someone listen to a minute or so of it and tell me if it is acceptable? If so, any advice would be much appreciated. Bosola (talk) 18:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
I am a semi-active Wiktionarian who ran across this project a long time ago. Listening to a lot of radio online, I consider recording articles here to be potentially very useful. The equipment and software to record is already set up on my machine, so I started today on this featured article that uses language and names familiar to me. After recording, to perfection, only the introduction and part of the first section, I am completely disillutioned.
The primary problem is a pattern that I've noticed before. Random individuals who contribute to an article tend to insert ideas parenthetically. In fact I think my first contribution to this project lay between two brackets, and in the very next edit the curves at either end were removed by a wiser editor. Whether the symbols are there or not doesn't make any difference in the reading, however. Look at the introduction and first section of that article and count, besides the number of parenthesis, the number of tagged-on examples using "such as" or imbedded definitions, descriptions, and explanations. It hardly flows.
Then there's the problem that the article isn't written systematically, so there isn't any connectiveness, e.g. in the fourth paragraph between lensing, waves, and the Big Bang. There's no topic sentence stringing the pieces together, so listening to it in a linear fashion could mislead someone into thinking that LIGO and GEO 600 are studying lensing. And I have to worry that some of the examples are even correct, particularly the one given for fictitious forces. I feel like I'm wasting my energy on whimsical, haphazard writing. Practically it makes more sense to go through and first edit the damn thing myself, adapting it for speech and checking all the information for accuracy, or being lazy and just ripping it out. I'd really like to just go at it and spew out an entire article, but there are so many reasons I can't start recording today.
A couple of issues are already mentioned elsewhere. Wiki is a collaborative effort, so it doesn't make sense to have only the original contributors back up raw files for future edits. Anyway, I simply couldn't imagine anyone sitting through an entire reading of the article without wanting to skip to certain sections. Otherwise why are we reading the contents? I'm sure even the blind would want more options than fast forward. There is an entire mechanics that has not been implemented, if it has even been thought through.
And to think, this is an easy article. It's featured and is supposed to be correct. There isn't any tabular data. There aren't any strange French names to be Anglicized. What can I say to you? Good luck. I'll be back when you've worked things out. 66.68.23.41 (talk) 07:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I'm new to the spoken word section, but I made a recording of Supply and demand, and I want someone to help review/post it, as I don't know what processes are involved. The URL for the file I uploaded is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Supply-and-demand-9-28-08.ogg
Any questions or requests would be best left on my talk page, so that I see them quickly. I'd be happy to re-record any sentences which aren't clear. In addition, this article is graph-heavy. I went with just using the captions on the graphs, which were fairly descriptive, but I feel that it might be beneficial to add descriptions of them as well. Any thoughts on whether this is a good idea, or would make the article too long would also be appreciated. Huadpe (talk) 05:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Vowel has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.)
Hi, I've just learned about your WikiProject; good work! I'm interested in producing recordings, especially of scientific articles, but I've no experience with that. Do people typically buy a separate microphone for recording? If you could add more details on hardware, the software used to drive it, and other nuts'n'bolts issues to the recording guidelines, that'd be helpful.
For my part, I've been writing some scripts to help people using screen readers such as JAWS and Fire Vox to read Wikipedia more conveniently and flowingly. You can find the scripts listed on my user page. For illustration, the scripts strip out hyperlinks, remove indenting, summarize differences between article versions, that sort of thing. Nearly anything is possible with such scripts, so if you have a wish-list for new scripts or suggestions for the current scripts, please drop me a line. Proteins (talk) 14:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I just finished my first spoken article and would like a review and some feedback. It's a short nine-minute reading of Interstate 15 in Arizona. Since it's a short featured article, I figured it would be perfect for getting my feet wet. Thanks! -- Tonyle (talk) 23:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm interested in recording articles and I want to know if it would be appropriate to include music? I haven't found any spoken articles that include music. Can anyone offer any examples? I would think including brief music clips (obviously, within fair use copyright guidelines) would be appropriate especially for articles about musicians, songs, albums and so forth. Also, I am a musician, and I can include original music accompanying a reading such as you would hear in a documentary. Is there Wikipedia theme music? I haven't found anything in the guidelines to support or hinder the use of music. Donnie Love (talk) 11:28, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Something else that might be considered is making videos that contain footage/images and a narrator, reading a whole article or excerpts from one. For example it might simply be a collection of a few passages from an article with a slideshow of some images. Ideally there could be a separate narration sound layer so that it could be recorded in different languages too. You see a lot of videos like this, e.g. on sites like Britannica. Richard001 (talk) 00:35, 16 December 2008 (UTC)