I am quite impressed, it must be said.
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On 6 January 2016 at 17:17, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> wrote:
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 <wilfredor(a)gmail.com> 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>
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