If you know some combination musician/developers, please feel free to
send them my way! :-) And I know Mark Hershberger recently committed
the LilyPond extension for MediaWiki[0] into Subversion[1], and it is
getting reviewed there. That's a good way current MediaWiki
developers can contribute to improving the state of music scholarship
on Wikimedia projects.
Take a look at the music markup discussion on meta.[2] Basically, the
Wikimedia community needs someone to write a MediaWiki extension that
will let users insert musical notation and have it show up as sheet
music within a Wikipedia page, or improve the existing LilyPond
extension to a deployable state.
For those who don't know, Ting Chen is the chair of the Wikimedia
Board of Trustees.[3] Thanks for the suggestion, Ting.
[0]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LilyPond
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/98424
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Music_markup
[3]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hello dear developer community,
today I would like to awake your attention and interest on a very old
bug with the number 189:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189, and related to it
Bug 29630:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29630
It is about the possibility of different MediaWiki plug-ins that would
enable our projects, mostly WikiSource, but also Wikipedia, to input and
show music notes on an easy way. You can really have impact on our
projects by addressing this bug and make a lot of Wikisource community
members happy.
Any takers on this?
Greetings
Ting