User:Galendalia/sandbox/PSW layout test/article choice guidelines

Step 1: Choose an article
You may read any article you like (or even just a section, although complete articles are preferred), but we'd prefer that you start with one of these:
 * Articles soon to be featured on the Main Page
 * Featured articles
 * Requested spoken articles
 * English versions of articles on the list of articles every Wikipedia should have

Before choosing your article, here are a couple of pointers:
 * Use a single version. Recordings should be of a single version of an article, which should be linked to as discussed in the uploading guidelines.
 * Consider stability. You should consider the stability of articles before producing a spoken version — an article involved in a dispute or undergoing major revision may be a poor candidate. For this reason, featured articles are excellent candidates, as they normally aren't being edited as much as other articles.
 * Avoid copyrighted text. Spoken word audio clips of Wikipedia articles that incorporate copyrighted text pose legal problems (since the resulting audio file cannot be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License). You should avoid these articles.

Step 2: Copyedit
Once you have chosen an article but before you start recording, please go over the article carefully and copyedit it. Also consider editing articles to make them easier to read, breaking up long sentences, for example. If you come to an error or difficult passage while recording which you then edit, your recording may end up being a mish-mash of different versions of the article.

Step 3: Prepare a script
It helps to have a script of what you will be reading.

Step 4: Notify the community
Optionally, let the editors of the article and the Spoken Wikipedia community know that you will be working on that particular article, by putting a note on the article talk page.