Hoi, I have been working really hard checking the 4800 words that are in nl:wiktionary and converting them to undercase when needed. This is a big task because the nl:wiktionary has grown quite a lot. I am thankfull that we have to do this now and not a few thousand words later. As I got bored and wanted to do something else as well, I have created a soundfile called nl-Nederlands.ogg. I created this using Audacity which was recommended to me (thanks :) ).
Audacity saved it for me as an ogg file and I have uploaded it to nl:wiktionary. To my amazement, it identified itself as *afbeelding:nl-Nederlands.ogg* (afbeelding means image). I expected that I would be able to hear it, but I get a message telling me that the operating system does not know what to do with the format. I installed the real player it does not know what to do with it, I tried the Windows thingie, same fiasco.
I had a look at META to see if I could find anything about .ogg files; nothing. So, I had to be "adventurous" (I hate being adventurous) and found that a Media player called "Ashampoo" could do the trick where the conventional stuff fails miserably. It does indeed not only play ogg files.
The listening part of the file in wiktionary is a joke. It does say Afbeelding:nl-Nederlands.ogg http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Afbeelding:nl-Nederlands.ogg and when you click it, you get a details screen while I expect to hear something, On this screen it is not immediately obvious what to do but there is an nl-Nederlands.ogg It http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Afbeelding:nl-Nederlands.ogg text. When you press this, you finally get to hear a word; the pronounciation of "Nederlands" spoken by me.
The reason why I use so many words is, because .ogg files are the recommended sound files. I expect that when you select one it will not say image but *sound*, and when I press it, that it will try to let me hear something. After this I wanted to check what it does with .wav files but, they are not allowed anymore :(
An other issue is that sound files are worthwhile resources for wiktionaries; how better to demonstrate pronounciation ?? When a naming convention is used like xx-word where xx is the ISO 639 code and word, well the word, you will get thousands of files. It would be really good if COMMONS was the place where these sound files are uploaded to.
Questions: * How can I make the .ogg file execute immediately (without a detail screen) ? *When can I upload sound files to COMMONS so that every wiktionary can share this and similar resources ? http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Afbeelding:nl-Nederlands.ogg* What can we do to make it easier for people to use .ogg ? Having loads of them helps as well !!
Thanks, GerardM