Hi all, Le mercredi 15 octobre 2025 à 03:28 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > 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?
This is certainly nice to have but is it necessary? > > 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. Over the past few days, I've been tinkering with this, and here is the result: https://wiki.lilypond.community It's a MediaWiki instance with a custom extension to insert LilyPond snippets (different than the Score extension used on Wikipedia, though loosely inspired). The Wikitext syntax is <lilypond version="X.YY.ZZ"> ... </lilypond> and this automatically downloads LilyPond X.YY.ZZ if it's being used on the wiki for the first time, then inserts the code and its SVG output. LSR tags are converted to categories such as https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Category:Really_cool and I also put redirects for LSR snippet numbers like https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/LSR_982 so that it would be easy to make the current LSR website redirect to this. The purpose of auto-downloading LilyPond is to require less maintenance in the long run. Also, since the version is set per-snippet, it is possible to upgrade snippets one at a time rather than (painfully) in one go as has been done so far. If people like this, I'm willing to do the remaining things to get it off the ground, like writing help pages, then keep it running and pay for the server costs. I'm not currently willing to involve myself much more than that, though — this includes upgrading of snippets to newer LilyPond versions in the future, and also updating the makelsr.py script (I just don't have the energy to fight the doc build again, sorry...). WDYT? Best, Jean
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