This page is to coordinate efforts to get more free content recordings onto Wikipedia to illustrate music topics, and other areas which would benefit from recordings. This project is mainly to gather forces to record larger works, however if shorter solo clips are needed for a page those requests are welcome as well.
The work recorded must have passed into the Public domain in order to be eligible for recording. The recording must then be released under a Commons compatible license (see Commons:Licensing for more information). Before you request a recording here, please make sure that there is not already a freely licensed recording available, checking Commons, Wikipedia:Sound/list, and other sources first.
Works should be uploaded in the Ogg or MIDI formats, and should be uploaded directly to Commons for use on other Wikimedia projects and add it to Category:Sound. For help with Ogg and MIDI, see Wikipedia:Media help.
Requesters should add {{Audio requested}} to the talk page of the article for which the recording is being requested. Include an optional parameter to specify what category of sounds it falls under, and an optional second parameter to specify what the sound should be of.
- Example:
{{Audio requested|medical sounds|a heart click}}
Adding this template automatically adds the page to Category:Wikipedia requested audio.
- Add {{Music requested}} for music-related articles, which automatically adds the page to Category:Wikipedia requested audio of music.
- Add {{Animal requested audio}} for animal articles, which automatically adds the page to Category:Wikipedia requested audio of animals.
- Add {{Pronunciation requested audio}} (short {{praudio}} ) to request an audio file with correct pronunciation of that article's title, automatically adding it to Category:Wikipedia requested audio of pronunciations
- Add {{Pronunciation audio requested}} (short {{par}}) to request an audio file with correct pronunciation of some other article content, specified with the
|of=parameter.
If it's a pronunciation you are looking for, you may consult Commons:Pronunciation files requests at Wikimedia Commons as well.
Volunteers may want to add themselves to Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests.
See also {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}