Forum:Sound Files

After thinking about a recent article by Phlox formerly Knifemaker, suggesting that we could download sound files as well as images, I did some checking. The short answer is No, and Yes. Currently, we probably do not have the right settings to allow this (I suspect but I don't know). However, the settings can be changed, but that has to be done by Wikia staff, not site Bureaucrats.

Adding WAV and other sound file capabilities could be quite useful for this wiki. Hey, it would be nice to have something appropriate playing in the background when you opened up an article about say Robert Burns---a little bagpipe music perhaps? Copyright problems could be very limiting. Also, I can imagine having oral histories placed here. Not too mention a few sound effects her and there.

And Video clips? But lots of people have some family history video's they'd like to share.

This may be something we'd like to explore, but we'd want to know preciselly what we want in terms of file capabilities to add. Any thoughts? Bill 15:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)