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November 30

listening to wiki

I am visually impaired and I want to know if there is anything I can use that would read wiki pages to me? perhaps you offer that already? or you can point me in the direction of something to read webpages to me?

I would much appreciate any response.

Thank you

JPM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.241.217.194 (talk) 03:28, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Do you have a screen reader ? If so, I believe that should work for Wikipedia, as well as many other sites, although certain things, like text inside an illustration, might not be read. What operating system are you using ? Many include screen readers or at least magnifiers, to help the visually impaired. And, obviously, a large screen helps, too. StuRat (talk) 06:32, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

StuRat's suggestion of a screen reader is your best option for most articles. Just to add that some articles have spoken versions contributed by users too. The spoken versions won't be completely up-to-date but they are read by real people and so hopefully much better than anything a machine could produce. The list of articles that have been recorded is at Wikipedia:Spoken articles —Noiratsi (talk) 22:49, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Dictionary software for mobile phone

I have a Motorola wx260 mobile phone and want to install a English-English dictionary software with pronunciation facility. Is it possible? and How? Thank you.175.157.126.249 (talk) 09:23, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Is it running Android? If so, you can just go to the Google Play store and download one. Dismas|^(talk) 04:46, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

How can I make such as this file?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.238.225.116 (talk) 11:01, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

There are hundreds of free software and commercial software packages that can produce animated graphs such as this image. The image is both an animated GIF and a mathematical plot. You can learn how to use animation by following GNU Image Manipulation Program's simple animations tutorial. You can learn how to use MATLAB's imwrite command for animated GIFs. You can learn how to plot using polar coordinates using matplotlib's polar plot demo code. You can also ask the author of the image you found: he contributes to Wikipedia as User:LucasVB and has already created a tutorial for some of his more advanced animations: Frequently Asked Questions: How do you make these? Nimur (talk) 16:17, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Emergency Website Building

So it turns out the 'website builder' service offered by my hosting provider can't do half the things I need for the site, and as a result, I need to abandon it and create a whole new site from scratch myself, including having access to the code so I can edit and insert certain details. And we're due to go live tomorrow, so I have less than 24 hours to do this.

Anyone know somewhere I can download a rough template for a website where I can just fill a few pages with text and pictures and set up a simple shop interface on one page? I have all the FTP software and information on what the site has to include and so on, I just need the actual outline code to put it online, something I doubt I could learn to write myself in a few hours.

Thank you,

213.104.128.16 (talk) 23:19, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm thinking Elance, guru.com? Wnt (talk) 23:06, 1 December 2013 (UTC)