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