Hello Jean,
Nice to hear from you.
> Hi folks, revenant here. (I happened to be browsing the
> lilypond-devel archives for unrelated reasons.)
You are sorely missed!
> I just wanted to mention that there's a lot of wiki software out
> there and in particular there is already a MediaWiki extension (used
> on Wikipedia) for adding LilyPond scores.
Yeah, having a Wiki for the LSR data sounds great. However, what's
still needed IMHO is an equivalent to the current search engine, i.e.,
something that brings up images if you search for given terms. AFAIK,
this is not offered by Wikis, which are text-based, and public Web
search engines are not good at that either. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'd
really love to be corrected. Perhaps the search engine code used for
commons.wikimedia.org could be massaged accordingly?
> So that might be an option to get account management, search, edit
> history, talk pages, categorization, etc, without coding all of that
> yourself. But I have zero experience as to whether this stuff is
> easy to install and maintain.
Well, the question is whether there is a guy with experience in such
things and interested in LilyPond who wants to do that – and maintain
it. The transition from the current MySQL database to a Wiki can be
fully automated, I think: in the `makelsr` script we use Pandoc for
the conversion from HTML to Texinfo; similar code can be written
easily to use Pandoc for converting HTML to MarkDown, and generating
Wiki entries can be fully done programmatically, walking over the git
history in Eef's LSR backup project to create history for Wiki
entries.
Werner
