Xenharmonic Wiki:WikiProject Mospage

This page in a nutshell: Project Mospage is a long-term wiki project to clean up, maintain, and improve all MOS-related pages.

Goals

• Rewrite all pages related to individual moment of symmetry scales in a consistent manner.
• Present information on mos pages in a temperament-agnostic manner, while also providing appropriate (and accurate) temperament correspondences.

Scope:

• Primary pages:
  • Pages for abstract MOS patterns
• Secondary pages:
  • Pages that describe properties and theory regarding MOS scales
  • TAMNAMS-related pages

Members

• Ganaram inukshuk – nearly all templates and modules, style guide, TAMNAMS integration, literally everything!

Special thanks to:

• SupahstarSaga, Inthar, and Godtone for their initial work on TAMNAMS and initial mospage rewrites.
• Fredg999, for helping with finding what info is important to include in the mos templates.
• FloraC for verifying scale trees.

Open tasks

Primary tasks

For MOS pages:

• Provide a style guide for MOS pages for:
  • Pages with sparse info (generally scales with high step counts).
  • Pages with plentiful info (generally scales with step counts 6–10).
• Rewrite all MOS pages in accordance to style guide.
  • Rewrite 5L 2s and 5L 3s pages as an inaugural run.
  • Rewrite pages with step count 7.
  • Rewrite pages with step counts 6–10.
  • Rewrite pages with step counts less than 5.
  • Rewrite non-octave pages.
• Provide temperament-related info in appropriate sections, with assistance from Xenharmonic Wiki:WikiProject TempClean.
  • Provide information for notable temperament correspondences.
  • Verify all scale trees.
• Develop and refine appropriate templates to automate the presentation of common MOS-related data.

Secondary tasks

For theory pages:

• Provide satisfactory definitions of a MOS scale at both the beginner and expert level.

For TAMNAMS:

• Redefine TAMNAMS as a notationally agnostic means of presenting MOS scales, not just a system of naming scales, scale degrees, and intervals.
  • Ensure all TAMNAMS names are satisfactory.
  • Add a protocol for namechanges.
• For TAMNAMS Extension, verify that these names are also satisfactory.
  • Give names used by Scale Workshop 3 its own section. Clean up these names or clarify their usage wherever they are used on MOS pages.
  • Provide a general, systemized naming scheme for child mosses.

Miscellaneous tasks

For MOS pages:

• Provide audio examples.

For categories:

• Possibly split theory pages from Category:MOS scale into Category:MOS scale theory
• Possibly split Category:Abstract MOS patterns into Category:Octave-equivalent abstract MOS patterns and Category:Non-octave abstract MOS patterns

Other:

• Rewrite the page Catalog of MOS

Categories under jurisdiction

• Category:Abstract MOS patterns (main-namespace pages only; octave-equivalent mosses are prioritized first)
• Category:TAMNAMS
• Category:MOS scale (theory pages only)

Templates

Templates for MOS pages:

• Template:Infobox MOS
• Template:MOS intro
• Template:MOS scalesig
• Template:MOS intervals
• Template:MOS genchain
• Template:MOS mode degrees
• Template:MOS modes
• Template:MOS tunings
• Template:MOS tuning spectrum

Templates whose use is unclear:

• Template:MOS interval HE
• Template:TAMNAMS name

Disused templates that may be worth reviving:

• Template:MOS gamut

Deprecated templates (do not use):

• Template:MOS degrees – Superseded by MOS tunings.
• Template:Scale tree – Input of comments is unmaintainable.
• Template:MOS data – Input of supplementary info beyond what is provided by the template is unmaintainable.
• Template:Scale link - Input of scale signature has shortcomings addressed by Template:MOS scalesig.