[Foundation-l] WikiMusic

[oscar]

i strongly support this initiative :-)

oscar

On 12/12/05, effeietsanders l <effeietsanders.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello everybody,
>
> We now have a free encyclopedia. We now have a free library. We now have
> free pictures. Now we have to *free the music*
> (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-JW1
> ) and make it available for everyone. But with the preservation of the
> wiki-idea: publishing music with a free license, or publishing music in
> the
> Public Domain.
>
> Let's make a WikiMusic. A Wiki with:
>
>    - *both score and text* of a free piece of music
>    - the *music itself* in a playable music file (in different versions,
>    for example one version with trumpet, one with a whole orchestra, not
> MIDI)
>    - the *sheet music* in a wiki-text format
>    - *information about* the piece of music.
>
> The WikiMusic has to be *user-friendly* as well. So NO WikiMusic just for
> expert musicians, but also for people who are just looking for a nice work
> of Beethoven. There has to be a system to *search* in this Wiki in a
> user-friendly way, too. Maybe the so-called Parsons
> code<http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html>(
> http://www.musipedia.org/pcnop.0.html) can be used?
>
> The WikiMusic wiki has to *allow for growth*. Not just for experts, but
> rather also for people with little knowledge of the software.
> Lilypond<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LilyPond>is 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.
>
> The Wikimusic has to be *editable*. So not just the creation of new scores
> has to be easy, but also their editing. Maybe some way can be found to
> change the rather complex format of lilypond into a drag-and-drop idea, so
> the sheet can be altered easily. Later the sheet can be transcribed into
> the
> standard format again.
>
> 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?
>
> 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. Plese add your comment, and get the project
> on it's way. Every bit of help and comment is welcome. I hope to see you
> there.
> Effeietsanders (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/gebruiker:Effeietsanders
> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Effeietsanders
> )
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