[Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Feb 27 21:45:38 UTC 2012


On 02/25/12 10:30 AM, Castelo wrote:
> On 25-02-2012 15:58, Michael Peel wrote:
>> Actually, Wikipedia sort of is the place for original content - when 
>> it comes to illustrations in articles.
> Those illustrations are mainly in Commons, with exception of the 
> images in fair use, but linked in the articles. That kind of original 
> content also plays a minor role, only "illustrating" the article, but 
> we cannot reference a sentence as "vide image", for instance.
>> It's possible to envisage audio recordings being used in appropriate 
>> Wikipedia articles along the lines of 'listen to a fisherman from the 
>> coast of Shandong talk about his work', more in the current role of 
>> pictures/photographs rather than as references.
> In this case, the audio files will be in Commons, too, and as you 
> pointed, won't be used for referencing a specific assertation in the 
> text. It will be, just like images, illustrating the written content, 
> as we do now with music samples in musicians biography[1]. I suggest 
> transcribe the interview for Wikinews and use it in inline citations, 
> as in {{cite news}}, for i) easier checking than by {{cite video}} and 
> ii) facilitate translating.

This is just a question of where to file the data, and the mechanical 
question of how to use it and reference it.  The key question is about 
having it in the first place. A positive answer to that gives us the 
luxury of deciding where to put it.

Ray



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