Grateful thanks to Sebastian’s for all his good work over that long time.

Mike Andrews

On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The LSR (LilyPond Snippet Repository) was a small website hosted
> at https://lsr.di.unimi.it where LilyPond users could find and
> share lots of useful code snippets. Sebastiano, its creator,
> recently announced he was no longer willing to keep it running.
> Many thanks to him for maintaining it during a period of over
> 20 years.
>
> As a replacement, I've set up a new LilyPond wiki, which
> lives here:
>
>   https://wiki.lilypond.community
>
> It runs MediaWiki, the same wiki software as Wikipedia.
> It was initialized by importing all LSR snippets. You can
> search for your favorite snippets using the search box, or
> browse all pages here:
>
>   https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Special:AllPages
>
> Everyone can contribute snippets and this is very easy to do.
> See the instructions here:
>
>   https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Help:Contributing
>
> So, if you write some useful code, please take a minute to
> contribute it!
>
> Currently, the wiki is open for anyone to edit (even without an
> account, and without approval of changes). I would prefer to keep
> it like this because it keeps the friction low, although I'm open
> to opinions on this point.
>
> See here for more information about the wiki, including an Atom
> feed of recent changes that you can follow if you'd like to review
> them (and, e.g., revert spam if it occurs):
>
>   https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Meta:About
>
> I would also like to ask if a few people could become administrators,
> both on the wiki (having permissions such as deleting pages) and for
> the server that runs it (SSH, cloud console and DNS access). There is
> no work implied other than taking care of the thing in case I get hit
> by a bus. If you could do this and I know I can trust you, please reply
> privately and I'll give you access.
>
> Best,
> Jean
>

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