Hello all, Following a request from community members, we just deployed a new data type called “Musical Notation” in order to store musical notation in Wikidata. Property creators can now find this new data type in the list and create new properties with it. A property with musical notation data type will display the notation in Lilypond <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195946> format, using the score extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>. For example, if you enter this code as a value: \relative c' { c d e f | g2 g | a4 a a a | g1 |}, it will be displayed as a score: [image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 1.png] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidata_1.png> The score also appears on the diff pages. [image: Screenshot musical notation Wikidata 2.png] <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_musical_notation_Wikidata_2.png> The existing property LilyPond notation (P5482) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5482> is used on around 300 items <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Property%3AP5482&namespace=0>. If you need any help from the developers to change the datatype of the the property or to migrate the content, please let me know. One bug is already known and we’re working on fixing it: if the score is long, it gets out of the statement box and overlaps with the edit button. If you encounter any issue, feel free to create a subtask of this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208489>. Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

This is great! Shouldn't the property be named ''modern musical notation'' to distinguish it from other forms of musical notations from around the world? Regards, Bodhisattwa