Spoken Wikipedia
Recording Guidelines
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You may read any article you like (or even just a section, although complete articles are obviously preferred), but we'd strongly prefer that you start with one of these:
Before choosing your article, here are a couple of pointers:
- Recordings should be of a single version of an article, which should be linked to as discussed in the upload section. Before starting to record, make sure to go over the article carefully and copyedit it. Also consider editing articles to make them easier to read, breaking up long sentences, for example. If you come to an error or difficult passage while recording which you then edit, your recording may end up being a mish-mash of different versions of the article.
- You should consider the stability of articles before producing a spoken version — an article involved in a dispute or undergoing major revision may be a poor candidate. For this reason, featured articles are excellent candidates, as they normally aren't being edited as much as other articles.
- Conversely, spoken word audio clips of Wikipedia articles that incorporate copyrighted text pose legal problems (since the resulting audio file cannot be licensed under the GFDL). You should avoid these articles.
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