On 15 November 2013 07:54, Sven Manguard svenmanguard@gmail.com wrote:
This is certainly an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it has a place in either Wikipedia or Wikidata unless we're talking about the clips being notable quotes.
For Wikipedia, if it's just a voice sample - as opposed to a notable quote - the community is going to view it as cruft and remove it from articles, as the majority of users will find a contextless sound clip to be of little encyclopedic value.
For Wikidata, why would we link to an audio sample if it's of no valueto sister projects and no different from other voice samples (except for the license).
I like the idea, don't get me wrong. I just think that the broader community is not going to see the utility in the samples.
I think that audio clips - as supplementary material - do have definite value; undoubtedly they're of less value than a photograph, but they're probably more useful than a signature, which seems to be fairly well accepted (on enwiki at least). Beats me as to why...
Audio clips of major quotes (or whole speeches, etc) are definitely more value than more mundane ones, in the way that a picture of historic significance is better than a conventional portrait, but I wouldn't agree that they're automatically contextless just because you don't already know what they're saying. Of the three samples given there, we have:
* Mary Robinson talking about her upbringing * Mark Carney discussing economic policy * Justin Welby on ethics & banking
The general approach of the BBC material makes it likely that most of the clips will be people discussing themselves, their work, or their field of expertise, all of which seem contextually appropriate.
Thirdly, whether Wikipedia wants it or not this is definitely useful and appropriate material for Commons, and if Commons has a distinctive class of items attached to subjects then it seems reasonable to note that on Wikidata. Again, signatures are a good example - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P109 - but there's also things like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P94 (coat of arms image)
The fact that we've got external reusers doing something cool (matching Wikidata entities by voice recognition!) is the icing on the cake ;-)