This is fantastic!! Just love it!


On 6 January 2016 at 18:59, 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&section=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
>
>


-- 

*Kind regards,Reem Al-Kashif*
_______________________________________________
Wikimania-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

Reply via email to