| Jc86035 added a comment. |
In T208489#4927904, @Lydia_Pintscher wrote:In T208489#4927702, @Jc86035 wrote:
- Is there a good reason to favour LilyPond over other music notation formats? LilyPond is presently the only notation software supported by MediaWiki, but it may be worth considering other formats. The last few comments in T208494 might be helpful. (For what it's worth, almost all of the LilyPond notation statements in Wikidata were added by me through my semi-automated creation of items for musical chords.)
This is the one that can be reused inside the Wikimedia projects and that I have seen outside it as well. Any new one would need a lot of additional development time to support it that I'm currently not really convinced is worth it.
Most of the (few) concerns raised about using LilyPond are largely related to the file format specification being based on the code, rather than the code being based on a specification. I think this wouldn't be a practical concern for Wikidata, since breaking changes don't occur very often (the last stable version of LilyPond was released almost five years ago); and given the length limits, LilyPond, Braille and ABC are the only formats which could realistically be used in statements anyway (MEI, MuseScore and MusicXML are all XML-based). Concerns were also raised about the lack of an exporter from LilyPond to MusicXML.
On the other hand, if it's exceedingly unlikely that anyone will put in the work to create new extensions, then the scope of T208494 should probably be considerably reduced to only allowing Commons uploads of the formats, since thumbnail generation would effectively require four new extensions (as well as work to enable thumbnails for LilyPond files). If that occurs, it would probably affect this task, since it would become possible to upload music notation files to Commons much sooner. It would be possible to instead indefinitely postpone enabling all formats other than LilyPond on Commons, but this would go against the consensus of the Commons RfC.
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