Thank you for taking up this burden.

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"There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have to set against
hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan

On Sun, Nov 2, 2025, 8:34 PM Mike Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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