Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Article choice guidelines

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Spoken Wikipedia Recording process Prepare → Record (Read) → Upload → Add → Notify

Step 2: Copyedit

See also: Wikipedia:Basic copyediting

Before recording the selected article, carefully review and edit it for clarity and readability. Simplify complex sentences when possible. If you encounter errors or challenging passages during the recording and make subsequent edits, the final recording may become inconsistent with the text.

Step 3: Prepare your script

It helps to have a manuscript of what you will be reading. Please do not use the live Wikipedia article as your manuscript, since the page can change at any time. Since recording a long article can take a considerable amount of time, you risk recording a mish-mash of different versions of the article.

Instead please use the permanent version (WP:PERMLINK) of your chosen revision of the article. In short: visit your chosen article when you (and the article) is ready for recording. Click 'Permanent link' in the right-hand sidebar's toolbox. Use this as the basis for your manuscript.

This also means you don't have to inform editors of your chosen article. Any work they perform doesn't change your script.

Toggle_VF script

I have written a Javascript that you can enable that will generate the content into a PDF file. This voice-friendly version is produced by suppressing those parts of a Wikipedia article that cannot be correctly or meaningfully rendered by a text-to-speech application; depending on the article in question, these non-renderable items may include images, tables, in-line references, various templates and user interface elements, as well as metadata.

You aren't using a computerized text-to-speech application, you are preparing a human voice recording of the article, but you might still benefit from having prepared a version of the page with the bits you don't plan to include in your recording.

However, it is missing a couple of features which I will work on adding:

• It does not include the first line of text required by this project, nor does it include the last line
• It does not include image captions
• It does not list if there are any tables (so you should make notes as needed)

The Javascript is located here - just click "install" if you have automatic scripts installed. If you have any questions, please let me know. - P999

Step 3a:

Optionally, let the editors of the article and the Spoken Wikipedia community know that you will be working on that particular article, by putting a note on the article talk page. You might want to do this if you suspect someone else is about to record the same article, in order to avoid duplicate or conflicting work.

Step 4: Upload your recording

See Help:Files#Uploading files and Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard.

Step 5: Link to your recording

First, link from the article's page. The {{Spoken Wikipedia}} template is created for this purpose. See its documentation for usage. Second, link your recording on Wikipedia:Spoken_articles in the appropriate section. Please list it only once.