On 12/12/05, effeietsanders-list <effeietsanders.l(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The WikiMusic wiki has to *allow for growth*. Not just
for experts, but
rather also for people with little knowledge of the software.
Lilypond<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond>is at the moment
still too difficult, too technical, for this purpose. Maybe
there are possibilities to make it easier to enter scores into a Wiki. Maybe
it is possible to integrate some kind of keyboard (java applet) in the
software, and have the software rewrite it into Lilypond-like formats.
Perhaps a (java) applet to drag and drop the notes into the score can be
developed, so a full score can be reproduced in a Wiki. And that such will
be transcribed into the Lilypond format automatically is our dream.
Saying Lilypond is hard is like saying wikitext is hard.
Lilypond is just one step above ABC and much more expressive, anything
else would not be sufficient to produce and maintain a professional
quality score.
I'm not convinced.
WikiMusic must, last but not least, be *able to
survive*. Not only with its
envisioned community, but also with a protection from vandals. It may prove
to be be hard to maintain the usual wiki-way here. Some brainstorming about
this issue needs to be done. How can vandals be checked best, by a mere
possibility of *listening to the differences* perhaps?
Most people qualified to edit such work would be able to visually
qualify such changes.. How could you expect to help out if you can't
read music? For such a project all changes should be clearly
explained. I don't see the problem with regular wiki procedures.
You can help with this! Today a proposal is posted on
meta
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikimusic_II
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimusic_II), and there are still a lot
of technical issues to be solved.
It is almost always mistake to ever think that technical issues are
nearly as big as social or resource issues or to think that good
technical decisions can solve problems of those sort.
There is already a great public domain score site, Mutopia. Tell us
why what you propose would be worth anyones time when mutopia already
exists?