Wow! So far as I know, this is the first time an online music service has premiered with an offering of classical music, bird songs, and national anthems. That is a great representation of Wikimedia Commons!
This is really cool! On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Wilfredor <[email protected]> wrote: > *Wikiradio* is a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet. > This service offers various stations, covering all genres of music and even > including recordings of Wikipedia articles on different languages, all of > which are available on Wikimedia Commons. Each sound is chosen by the > community to be highlighted as some of the finest work on Wikipedia and the > Wikimedia Commons. > > What is Wikiradio? > > Rather than listening to several audio files in Wikimedia Commons, which > require clicking "play" one after another on each one, the wikiradio > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> tools works not as a radio > streaming service, but instead as a synchronized (with UTC time) set of > tracks so that everybody can hear at the same time, simulating a radio. > How I can add my station?[edit > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiradio_(tool)&action=edit§ion=2> > ] > > 1. Create a page in meta with your dayparting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayparting> with your music list like > *[[Wikiradio > (tool)/playlist/<my_Station>]]*ej: for clasic music station we have > Wikiradio > (tool)/playlist/classic > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic> > 2. Edit the Template:Wikiradio (tool)/stations > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikiradio_(tool)/stations> and > add your station like *{{RadioUrl|<my_station>|<My_station>}}*,ej, for > classic music we have {{RadioUrl|classic|Classic}} > 3. Ready, now you can listen your music in wikiradio > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> !! > > *Note:* Alternatively, you can archive your dayparting and ask for an > administrator to protect those pages.How work Wikiradio software? > > Wikiradio load javascript pages dynamically from meta pages to make the > dayparting. This is thus in order that the community can choose the music > to be placed in these pages. Please edit the page of the station when you > want hear your music. > > Some ideas for stations include the spoken Wikipedia > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/spoken_Wikipedia> audios, music by > genre <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_music> and > topics like ambient audio > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sounds_of_nature>. But we > can do it better. Hourly, a signal is heard > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_tone_(France).ogg> to warn > about o'clock hours, like a real radio :p. Even better we could add a "You > are listening wikiradio, the free radio" spoken message every half hour, > and other stuff. > > Each radio station load a dayparting from a wikipage in meta like > "Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/<my_radio_station>" (ej: Wikiradio > (tool)/playlist/classic > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>) and > it could be archived. > > Finally, the main station could use music to fill the gaps of a daily > radio programming based on Wikimania conferences, wiki podcasts, etc. So, > what do you think? Your help is welcome, picking new tracks for any station > or suggesting your ideas. Thanks. (Soure here > <https://github.com/emijrp/wikiradio>) > See also > > - WikiRadio stations > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiRadio_stations> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 [email protected]
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