IIRC we (The FS process) tried to gather closer ties with Musopen. I think
we tried to get a premium account or something like that. I will look back
when it isn't hell week here at uni and tell you all. I would love to see
FS return. As a director of the process, it was sad to tag it as inactive.
--Guerillero
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Musopen is a wonderful project, and a perfect fit for
us.
When I first heard about this awesome thing a few months ago, my only
disappointment was that it was not yet in the Wikimedia family :)
Maybe this could be pursued in terms of reviving the Featured
Sounds/Video/Media process on Wikipedia and Commons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_sounds
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_media_candidates
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_of_the_day
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
I could imagine that a WikiMusic would make a lot
of sense as seperate
project and not under the Wikimedia Commons umbrella. This mainly from a
community perspective, because I expect that there is a significant
number
of people specifically interested in music stuff,
which perhaps would
benifit from having their 'own domain' and not be limited by Wikimedia
Commons rules, regulations and behavior. After all, Wikimedia Commons is
not
the most welcoming and friendly project we have
right now (no offence).
Also I can imagine that a seperate Wiki allows for better branding (and
involving people) and in the long run for more specialization of the
software setup (both the real software and css-stuff) to make it more
useful
for music. Bug 189 sounds like a great thing to
resolve in that context,
but
I can imagine (not being a music expert) many
other improvements to be
made
to mediawiki compared to the default setup (in
the way things are being
shown, the buttons available by default, the sidebar etc). Perhaps it
would
be nice to involve some of the musical experts in
our community into this
process (like Oscar van Dillen, who jumps to mind)? I know that in the
past
a WikiMusic project has been proposed a few times
as well, maybe you can
find some interested people there, too.
In any case it sounds like a great opportunity! I hope it will make it
finally to the 11th Wikimedia project.
Best,
Lodewijk
No dia 22 de Novembro de 2011 22:44, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>
>> There is lots of nice sheet music, but I imagine it's nothing that
>> Wikisource couldn't already get its hands on pretty easily. The
recorded
>> performances might be more valuable for
Commons, but obviously the
copyright
>> minutiae for recorded classical music can
get very complicated very
quickly.
>
>
> Basically all the content is PD. For sheet music, that means that the
> original composition *and* the edition published are both PD. For
recorded
> performances, it means that the original
composition *and* the actual
> performance *and* any subsequent technical engineering to the recording
are
> PD.
>
> They basically accomplish this by taking compositions that are pd-old
and
> commissioning people to make new recordings
of them, which are then
released
> into the public domain. (Strictly, CC-0 might
be more accurate than PD,
but
> I wouldn't argue... Also there are some
recordings which are
legitimately
> PD-USGOV)
>
> Their vision is very close to that of the Wikimedia movement, the files
> they currently have are already well-used on Wikipedia, and I'd actually
> mused about whether Musopen might be a good candidate for a grant from
the
> Foundation or a Chapter at some stage.
>
> The current "front end" is a much better job of being a music gallery
than
> Commons is so I hope it will remain, at least
in the interim.
>
> And while I'm happy to be generally enthusiastic I'm afraid, Erik, I
don't
> have time to commit to anything extra at the
minute - though things
might be
different
in January...
Chris
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