Robert Citek wrote:
On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Michael H. Georg wrote:
Methinks an audio wiki would be an oxy-moron. Since in nearly all
cases wikis are used to convey information or technical
descriptions, what would be the point of an audio version.
Again, just exploring the space. Video seems to be the obvious next
step.
It's amazing what you find on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spoken_articles
For example, here's the text version of an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale
and here's the audio version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Exploding_whale.ogg
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- Robert
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I agree, it is amazing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Quote from the above link:
/A *wiki* (IPA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English>:
[ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or also [ˈwɪk.iː] <wick-ey>, also why-kie
(according to Ward Cunningham <http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html>) is a
group of Web pages that allows users to add content, as on an Internet
forum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum>, but also permits
others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content. The term
//wiki also refers to the collaborative software
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software> (wiki engine) used
to create such a website (//see wiki software
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software>)./
/In essence, the wiki is merely a vast simplification of the process of
creating HTML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML> pages, and thus is an
effective way to exchange information through collaborative effort./
End quote.
I'll stand by my characterization of an audio wiki as an oxy-moron. The
point I'm trying to make is that if an article is static enough to have
an audio version, it is actually no longer a true wiki, simply an
encyclopedic entry. One of the points made at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia is
the stability of articles chosen for an audio counterpart. That seems
obvious when browsing the choices offered in spoken articles; /Split
Infinitive, Traditional Counties of England, Western(genre)/, /Roe vs.
Wade/. Not exactly cutting edge stuff. Robert, I checked out your audio
entries for /Producing Open Source Software. /Sounds like a lot of hard
work, and sounds good, although I had trouble getting the volume up
enough to clearly hear it. Volume problem could be this old laptop.
Forgive me, but I must point out; that is a copyrighted article and not
particularly suitable for editing, although the copyright is a very
liberal one. If the article is edited via the wiki, is the editor
required to follow this item in the copyright?
Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you
may distribute the resulting work only under a license
identical to this one.
I'm at work,running out of lunch time, and not sure I've made a clear
point here.
M. Georg
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