Hi all,
I'm a Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons editor (User:Jc86035
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jc86035>). Earlier in November I
opened a request for comment
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#RfC:_Musical_notation_files>
on Wikimedia Commons, proposing that several musical notation file formats
(originally MuseScore, LilyPond and MusicXML) become uploadable on Commons,
with the intention of eventually allowing audio and scores of some or all of
the file types to be shown in pages like Wikipedia articles. (The MediaWiki
software already has Extension:Score
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>, based on LilyPond and
Fluidsynth, but there are various benefits to allowing music notation to be
stored as files. Currently notation is shown in Wikipedia articles as images or
PDFs, or used directly through the Score extension.)
Your feedback on which file formats Commons should support would be much
appreciated; several developers have already provided input. Currently, in
addition to the aforementioned formats, the discussion is also evaluating MNX
and MEI (of which the former doesn't exist yet; it's not clear to us how these
two formats would interface and if supporting both would be redundant). If
you've never edited a Wikimedia site before, anyone can create an account and
participate in the discussion. (If discussion continues on the mailing lists I
will link to new posts, although it would be preferable to have discussion all
in one place.)
Best
jc86035
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