It would improve the articles to have these as external links, but it's probably best done on a case-by-case basis by human editors. What are the licensing conditions of the audio?
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Steve Bowbrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I know we've been here before but this one's a bit more specific and I'd > like the group's advice. > > The producer of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time are wondering if there'd be > any value in adding episodes from the In Our Time archive, which is now > complete, to relevant Wikipedia entries? There are obviously many direct > correspondences so it looks like it might make sense, for example, to > add The Aristotle episode to the Aristotle entry, Anarchism to the > Anarchism entry and so on. > > Archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/ > > Should we just allow entry editors to link to In Our Time episodes from > citations? or is there a systematic way that this could be done? Could > episodes be automatically added to entries where there is a direct > metadata correspondence, for instance? > > Would streaming audio be a useful addition to entries? Or would MP3s be > better? Would it be useful if we added the whole In Our Time archive to > the commons (I think that one's a bit of a longshot!). Are there any > other clever things that In Our Time could be doing to improve entries? > > Steve > > -- > Blogs at BBC A&Mi > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4 > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3 > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live > 07768 257 570 > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal > views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. > If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. > Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance > on it and notify the sender immediately. > Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. > Further communication will signify your consent to this. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter Bias research: http://biasandbelief.wordpress.com/ Serious music: http://virb.com/comapilot Comedy music: http://www.myspace.com/glandscape Community blog: http://doodznchyx.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
