It appears Spoken Wikipedia, as a whole, does not exist as a podcast, or RSS feed. I see and talk history that there have been several people who have started to do that, but none of them seem to be live and I don't see anything searching for podcasts that includes all of the recordings. Is there anything that anyone is aware of that is currently live where one can use a podcast app to listen to these? Is there an RSS feed even for the oggs (or other feed of updates, other than the automatically generated ones Wikimedia makes for all page changes)? Again seeing some stop-start efforts ten years or more ago, but nothing current. Before I start looking into it, I want to see what currently exists, if anything, to build on. Thanks -- Joe ETA: this feed Special:Export/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles seems like it would work as a starting point. But again the question is to see if, in making such a podcast, I am reinventing any existing wheels. morrisjm (talk) 17:04, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Okay so back a week later, I wrote a script that does the thing, at least in its most basic form. Here is an RSS feed that you can load, at least into AntennaPod, that gives you the Spoken Wikipedia files as a podcast feed.
It links to the native ogg files on Wikipedia, so you'd only expect it to work on platforms that support ogg, like Android. I've tested it only with Antennapod. You can search (in Antennapod) by category or Wikipedia username to only see those subsets since those are in the shownotes. Licensing info is also included in the shownotes.
To open the feed in AntennaPod: download and open AntennaPod on an android device. Tap the three-line menu in the top left, "Add Podcast", look down under "Advanced" and tap on "Add Podcast by RSS address". It's a big podcast -- 1600+ "episodes" as of Feb 2023 -- so it will take a few seconds to open up. Click "subscribe" and you should be all set. MIT-licensed source code here. Also the best place to submit issues.
I don't think there is any way this is going to work on Apple devices in this form -- searching for ogg-supporting podcast iOS apps I get nothing. It probably will work on other Android podcast apps where you can just give an RSS feed. If you try other Android pocast apps, let me know if it works or not.
At some point, hopefully soon, I'm going to work on making a script that locally generates a mp3-based RSS feed (as in, it downloads the ogg/wavs locally and converts them, as well generating a RSS feed for that points to them), and put it up on some CDN (probably Cloudflare, free) and that way these will be available for download via iTunes and other normal podcast channels. morrisjm (talk) 07:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)