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
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