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@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