[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:

> From: Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy document?
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 5:07 PM
> On Friday 03 October 2008 18:56:17 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Dalton
> <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > 2008/10/3 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> > >> 2008/10/3 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> > >>> 2008/10/3 Nikola Smolenski
> <smolensk at eunet.yu>:
> > >>>> Birgitte SB wrote:
> > >>>>> Ability to transcribe musical
> scores in wikitext.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Easily doable.
> > >>>
> > >>> Close. It's been done but with
> security issues.
> > >>
> > >> o_0 Dare I ask?
> > >
> > > I wasn't aware that music could be used as a
> dangerous weapon
> > > either... surely it's just putting lots of
> pictures together?
> >
> > The problem is that the solution people have proposed,
> LilyPond,
> > includes a scripting language.  There's a safe
> mode to disable some of
> > the more unpleasant features, but apparently
> that's not safe enough:
> > it can still easily be DoS'd by infinite loops. 
> Info on LilyPond's
> > safe mode:
> 
> There is the other solution, ABC notation. To my knowledge,
> it is fully 
> adequate for our needs, and there are no security problems.

Is there a Mediawiki extension for this notation?

Birgitte SB