Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/Help

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General help for recording items for Audio Wikinews.

Contents

[edit] Preperation

[edit] What you need

[edit] Recording

When you are recording, make sure you keep within these recommended length:

Because Spoken Wikinews consists of the entirety of the article, the length of the recording does not matter.

[edit] Spoken Wikinews In Progress

It may be useful to add the {{Template:Spoken Wikinews In Progress|~~~|Current date and time e.g. 13:54 Spetember 18 2008}} template to the collaboration page of the article you are recording to let others know you are in the progress of producing a recording for the article so we don't get any duplicates.

Template example:

Partial-Sound-icon1.png

James Pain (talk) is currently recording or editing an audio version of this article.
See Spoken Wikinews for further information
This notice was placed at 19:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC). If a significant amount of time has passed,
please check with James Pain (talk) to see if he or she is still working before removing this message.


{{Template:Spoken Wikinews In Progress|~~~~|19:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC)}}

[edit] Tips

We all think our voice sounds terrible but don't let that put you off, everyone is a potential newsreader. Here are some tips for when you are doing a recording:

Don't worry about any mistakes, just keep recording but start speaking again from the start of the sentence you made a mistake on. The mistake can be edited out afterwards.

[edit] Editing

[edit] Noise

Noise is a general hissing in the background or it could just be the humming from your computer. This can be eliminated in Audacity by following these steps:

[edit] Compression

Compression is the dynamic leveling of audio, making loud parts quieter, and the quiet parts louder, so that a consistent sound level is achieved. This can be applied in Audacity by following these steps:

[edit] Publishing

  • To change this setting back to the default in Audacity, go to 'File' and 'Preferences', then slide the 'Ogg Export Setup' quality bar to '5'.

[edit] File Naming

[edit] Uploading

Start off by going to the commons upload page. From there, go to the Basic Upload Form. Fill in the appropriate information and paste the following template in the Summary section replacing the text that was originally in it:

{{Audio upload
|file_name= 
|title= 
|time= 
|user_name= 
|date= 
|accent=
|sex=
|}}

Don't forget to add {{cc-by-2.5}} afterwards or else your file could be deleted from the commons.

A sample of what this will display is:

This is an audio version of the Wikinews article Robert Oppenheimer.
Audio icon
Listen to this article
  • Duration: 25:11
  • Created by: Willmcw
  • Date recorded: 2005-04-18
  • Accent: U.S. California
  • Gender: Male

When uploaded, list your recording at Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews/Releases in the proper list. If you recorded a Spoken Wikinews recording then put {{Audio|FileName.ogg|YYYY-MM-DD}} in the relating article. When you update the audio file, remember to update the timestamp.

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