Hi Andy, That's great news, well done!
Please do let me know if there's anything the chapter can to do help support your project. Best, Stevie On 14 November 2013 14:14, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > Over the last few months, I've been in discussion with the BBC about > open licensing some of their content. As an experement, they've agreed > to open licence a selection of audio "snippets" of notable people > talking, from certain of their radio programmes. > > I uploaded the first three yesterday: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_voice_samples > > and am helping them to run an event, "Speakerthon", in London, on > Saturday 18 January 2014, 10am - 5pm, where volunteers will be invited > to help select and upload more - and of course to add them to > articles. There will also be a free guided tour of the venue, > Broadcasting House. The event needs to be on BBC premises, as we'll > have exclusive access to their internal systems, to extract > high-resolution audio. Details are at: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/11/speakerthon-uploading-voice-samples-from-the-radio-4-archive-to-wikipedia > > (with a link to the Eventbrite page where you can sign up). I hope to > see many of you there. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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