Message: 9 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:23:54 +1000 From: Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] new extension for embedded music

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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:

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That wouldn't be very useful for Wikisource purposes.

?We need something editable.

I was assuming the user would include the LilyPond source along with the image. As I did here, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chopin_theme_op_28.png

Is there an "official" way to do this? I wasn't sure whether Commons or Wikisource was the right place? (I ended up at en as I wasn't sure about the copyright status...in the end I think almost all Chopin is PD).

Steve

That is not what we are looking to do at Wikisource. We want to be editable like any other text. We can already show images of scans sheet music. I can't quite articulate this well but here is a sample how we are able to at best now

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oh_How_I_Hate_to_Get_up_in_the_Morning

Birgitte SB