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New "Wikipedia Content Project" - how to do?
hello! I am a fairly new Wikipedia editor and music enthusiast (currently under the kind mentorship of @GoldRomean and am wondering how the team at Wikipedia can develop an archive that better supports sound archiving. There exists a horrendously unappealing sound archive start at Wikimedia.
I understand that Wikipedia has been largely modelled on encyclopedias and capitalist traditions of knowledge preservations and so is consequently largely text and image-based.
However for many cultures based in rapport-building cultural knowledge is preserved via conversation and oral traditions. Capitalist societies of course contain these essentially human traditions as well.
It would be amazing to be able to preserve and share oral traditions and vanishing soundscapes within this fabulous resource of Wikipedia. I am part of several Wikimedia projects so can ask them as well. I welcome any insights on how we may develop these important archival legacies.
Much thanks & warm regards I&I22 (talk) 11:57, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- @I&I22 I appreciate you contacting me with this significant and well-considered query. You make a great point when you say that a better sound archive is necessary to preserve oral traditions and soundscapes, and it points out a critical area where Wikipedia needs to improve. In order to unite like-minded editors and start creating the resources and policies required to realize this vision, I strongly advise you to think about launching a WikiProject devoted to sound archiving. >^CreativeLibrary460 /access the library revision\ 19:06, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
- @CreativeLibrary460 yes! this is exactly what i was thinking...although was also sort of hoping something already existed lol. Am happy to do so - just the interface needs to be much different than the options that exist on Wikipedia which work well for simple texts but not complex searches or archiving or researching. I do not know how to launch a Wikiproject and will look up, but many have contacted me to say there is interest in archiving sounds, and the EDM community is super invested so I know that I am not alone in this concern.
- So far I have been pointed to video2commons soulseek musicbrainz and wikimedia commons sounds but none of them are that great/appealing for longevity and community engagement. Super I will look into all and plan for longevity and beauty of use. I&I22 (talk) 23:09, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
- And I am inspired by the idea of rolodexes hahahah anyways will see how that goes! I&I22 (talk) 23:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
- @I&I22 Glad that you are inspired by the idea of rolodexes. >^CreativeLibrary460 /access the library revision\ 23:16, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
- And I am inspired by the idea of rolodexes hahahah anyways will see how that goes! I&I22 (talk) 23:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Edit request
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I propose that these links are removed from the Main page:
- Interlingual coordination – "This page is kept for historical interest. Any policies mentioned may be obsolete" is on the page
- Community – an essay probably doesn't belong on the frontpage, at least not this one as it's not a very insightful comprehensive one; it could be replaced with Category:Community and I think adding that link would be a good idea
- Category:Deleteme – why is this maintenance category on the frontpage to begin with? It doesn't belong there, may contain the pages one may want users to read the least not the most, and should rather be linked visibly on other pages if it isn't already such as Meta:Requests for deletion
Removing these can make the other pages more visible and reduce information overload and overseeability, making it e.g. more likely visitors check several links.
Moreover, I think if both Growing Wikimedia and Wikimedia principles are to remain linked on the frontpage, they really do well with some improvements. They currently don't really live up their page titles and to some degree a mess of largely outdated or old-archived things while missing much more important/useful pages on the topics. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:11, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Not done (as to the immediate edit request) discussion on this proposal should continue here first. — xaosflux Talk 14:10, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, this thread was meant to be for discussion of this proposal. Thought it would be good to tag it as edit request as it's a proposal for an edit(s). I hope users will comment. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:38, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
