As said, all the great things Oral history can be done - outside of Wikipedia. And what local Wikipedians like to do with it, will be decided in the community. Kind regards Ziko
2012/2/25 Castelo <michelcastelobra...@gmail.com>: > On 25-02-2012 15:58, Michael Peel wrote: >> >> Actually, Wikipedia sort of is the place for original content - when it >> comes to illustrations in articles. > > Those illustrations are mainly in Commons, with exception of the images in > fair use, but linked in the articles. That kind of original content also > plays a minor role, only "illustrating" the article, but we cannot reference > a sentence as "vide image", for instance. > >> It's possible to envisage audio recordings being used in appropriate >> Wikipedia articles along the lines of 'listen to a fisherman from the coast >> of Shandong talk about his work', more in the current role of >> pictures/photographs rather than as references. > > In this case, the audio files will be in Commons, too, and as you pointed, > won't be used for referencing a specific assertation in the text. It will > be, just like images, illustrating the written content, as we do now with > music samples in musicians biography[1]. I suggest transcribe the interview > for Wikinews and use it in inline citations, as in {{cite news}}, for i) > easier checking than by {{cite video}} and ii) facilitate translating. > > Castelo > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dickinson#Singing_style > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wmnederland.nl/ ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l