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Hey, I've noticed this page is currently under construction, and just wanted to give my input. You need to change the Headings section, as the generally accepted method for reading out headings is to say "Section 1: History" for example, rather than just saying the heading itself - this helps reduce confusion on the part of the listener. I'd change it myself, but I'm not great at wording guidelines! Cheers, H4cksaw (talk) 10:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there! Thanks so much for the guidelines! Just a suggestion, but some guidelines on how to handle tables would be great. Thanks! - Sarfa 19:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I think it would be exceptionally helpful to note any ways in which some of us can convert files into Ogg Vorbis, considering that we don't necessarily know how to. I was going to try recording for the project, but I can really only record to WAV or MP3 format for vocals as far as I know. : \ (I'm running Win XP, coincidentally) Runa27 21:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
When an article starts with disambiguation links, should those be read? For now, I'm assuming the answer is "no" (based on the idea that these are similar to category links). But please confirm or correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks. — Ka-Ping Yee ( talk) 07:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The guideline mentions references but not footnotes. I'm dubious about reading them as I fear that they would break the flow of the article but it might be good if we agreed on a standard for them. Dfmclean ( talk) 23:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Doesn't the recorder have to mention the GFDL at some point? howcheng { chat} 23:24, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Has anyone created a standard opening like:
This is the English Wikipedia article for "{PAGENAME}" read on December 12, 2008.
-- IrishDragon 16:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by IrishDragon ( talk • contribs)
Hi,
Bird, a complicated feature article is raising some new issues for spoken article reading. I enumerate them in subsections below.
Phyllogeny trees or cladograms present important information regarding an organisms evolution, development and radiation and its relation to other living and extinct species. These are an important feature of WP:TOL articles. I have initiated a discussion here.
One comes across 'main' templates in most of the sections of most articles which are important topics. One could say, for example:
The point is, does it make a difference to the listener whether the material of this section comes from another article or not. Anyway invariably that article would not have a spoken version. (This may change later, if we are all fortunate).
A similar case could be made for 'see also' (the one just under a section heading. Like the 'see also' at the end of the article which suggests related topics. In both these cases, IMHO, we do not add value 'unless a spoken version' exists for any of these.
In this case, I propose that all the 'main' and 'see also' articles whose spoken versions exist be mentioned at the end with the following text, or something like it':
Please see Bird#External_links. Here we have nine WikiProjects with additional information for readers.
We have been mentioning the Wikimedia Commons links as follows:
We could:
The guideline already tells us how to tackle references, but what about footnotes. Sometimes they contain information relevant to the article, sometimes they are only sources. We have three choices:
I recommend 'Option C'. AshLin ( talk) 07:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
I recommend that these be avoided altogether for purposes of the spoken text. AshLin ( talk) 07:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Opinions please. AshLin ( talk) 17:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed some files have like 2 seconds missing from the beginning, at least when playing in Windows Media Player (I think it was Multiple sclerosis treatment or AIDS, perhaps both). Therefore, I suggest that one should wait 2 seconds before starting to speak. Not a big issue, but still... Mikael Häggström ( talk) 16:27, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering whether to pronounce foreign names in its own language (for example, Madrid) or as I would say it to friends here in California. Personally, I would prefer saying names like that in Spanish, but some readers might not be able to catch the name. Rabiddog51sb ( talk) 00:03, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
As someone who wants to become involved in this project, I want to know what the general way of reading a table out loud is. (Maybe column headings and then row-by-row?) I have searched for articles that contain tables at Wikipedia:Spoken articles (to listen to as examples), but have not found any satisfactory ones. Thanks. — TeragR disc./ con. 06:25, 19 September 2018 (UTC)