On 12/12/05, effeietsanders-list effeietsanders.l@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. Lilypondhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPondis 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?