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Not written yet. Please expand this into a proper draft. Things to mention:

intro

• link to the "listening to sounds" page
• more justification of why Ogg Vorbis (listeners don't want to know this, they just want to listen; but contributors are beng told what to do, so we need to tell them why

content considerations

• when to use sounds
  • pronunciations on wiktionary:
  • entire p.d. songs on wikisource: (as in, not on wikipedia:; this is taken from the current intro to w:en:Wikipedia:Sound
• naming conventions (especially, perhaps only, on wiktionary)
• layout conventions
• where to get p.d. sounds
  • reminder that copyright applies
  • http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
• have sound files start at a certain time (not always at the beginning).

site features

• link to general uploads help
• explain [[Media:Foo.ogg]] links; and tell people to link to Help:Listening to sounds (or wherever) next to every such link and on the "image description page" [in lieu of us having software that does this for them]

writing software

• winamp filewriter: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=96985
• "sweep": download page
• Audacity: Windows download | Mac download | Unix download
• OggDrop (v. simple windows .wav -> .ogg converter)