User talk:Señoritaleona

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Your contributions

Hi Señoritaleona,

I've left you our default welcome message above which contains some useful links to get started on English Wikisource. But looking at your contributions so far I wonder if it might not be worthwhile to also point you directly to our scope: English Wikisource transcribes previously published works, published by a reputable publisher. This is akin to English Wikipedia's verifiability and no original research policies. The Portal:Whose Knowledge?-related content does not obviously appear to meet those criteria.

If the goal is to make transcriptions of this podcast series available you may want to look into the timed text extension on Wikimedia Commons (I'm not that familiar with it, but I think it's designed to essentially make subtitles for time-based media content like audio and video files). Alternately it is possible the content will be in scope for Wikibooks or Wikiversity.

I don't know that it would be in scope on any of those projects either, so I definitely recommend bringing your goals and plans up with the community there before assuming it is so.

But if you just want the text version online somewhere your best option is probably actually getting it hosted directly on the Whose Knowledge? website. I can't imagine they wouldn't want free transcripts of their podcast to host, so my recommendation would be to start there. --Xover (talk) 18:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Xover, thanks for the welcome message!

Thank you also for your kind recommendations, I really appreciate it! Let me expand a little bit more about the project behind these audio transcriptions.

I'm working with a group of Whose Knowledge? volunteers in the transcriptions. The goal isn't just have a place for hosting this podcast and its transcriptions (since the Whose Voices? website is actually its main host). The purpose of bringing these materials to Wikisource (and also Wikimedia Commons) is to make it more broadly available through Wikimedia projects in a multi-modal way. That's why we where thinking of Wikisource, as a space that stores textual materials that are previously published work. In this case, not in the form of audio books, but podcasts.

Speaking about the content itself (the Language Justice series of Whose Voices?), and the publisher (Whose Knowledge?), this podcast series is based on interviews to researchers and practitioners in the intersection of language studies and digital technologies. The work Whose Knowledge? did in curating the episodes and selecting expert speakers with plural perspectives, is a fairly reliable editorial process (in this case, for creating a podcast instead a book). Bringing this material to Wikisource has (in my opinion) intrinsic value; it's a way of bringing knowledge that exists in an oral format and make it available for reading and citations.

In this sense, I'd love to contribute more with the documentation, transcription and availability of relevant podcasts and audio materials from more soruces. But I acknowledge that maybe other wiki projects might suit better with this purpose. I will look forward to further feedback from the community. Let's keep in touch! Señoritaleona (talk) 20:24, 22 May 2023 (UTC)