Xenharmonic Wiki

User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey of named and unnamed commas: Difference between revisions

← Older edit
VisualWikitext
BudjarnLambeth (talk | contribs)
autopatrolled, emailconfirmed
18,232 edits
BudjarnLambeth (talk | contribs)
autopatrolled, emailconfirmed
18,232 edits
mNo edit summary
 
(22 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Editable user page|Feel free to edit this to correct any errors, or to add any new types of data it hasn't covered yet.}}
{{Editable user page|Feel free to edit this to correct any errors, or to add any new types of data it hasn't covered yet.}}


Conducted Saturday 16 November, 2024.
Conducted Monday 18 November, 2024.


== Total ==
'''551 comma pages counted'''. Additional commas counted from [[:Category:Lists of commas]].


== By size ==
Graphical summary:
* '''Large comma: 21''' (4%)
* '''Medium comma: 91''' (16%)
* '''Small comma: 220''' (40%)
* '''Unnoticeable: 219''' (40%)


== By year named ==
[[File:CommaSurveyNov2024VisualSummary.jpeg|600px|frameless]]
Includes commas without pages. Excludes unnamed and systematic-only named commas.
* 1870s: 2 (0%)
* 1880s: 0 (0%)
...
* 1970s: 0 (0%)
* 1980s: 0 (0%)
* '''1990s: 2''' (0%)
* '''2000s: 57''' (8%)
* '''2010s: 53''' (7%)
* '''2020s: 378''' (52%)




* '''Unknown: ~240''' (33%)
==Totals==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Totals
!#
!%
|-
|Commas with pages
|552
|~58
|-
|Commas in tables of commas, but w.o. pages
|~400
|~42
|}


== Most prolific namers ==
==Comma sizes==
Every theorist who has named 4 or more commas:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
# '''Xenllium: 143'''
!Comma sizes (only counts commas w. pages)
# '''Gene W Smith: 38'''
!#
# '''Eliora: 30'''
!%
# '''Dawson Berry: 26'''
|-
# '''Flora Canou: 26'''
|Large
# '''Paul Erlich: 23'''
|21
# '''Petr Pařízek: 23'''
|3.8
# '''B Lambeth: 20'''
|-
# '''Francium: 16'''
|Medium
# '''Kaiveran: 14'''
|91
# Jerdle: 12
|16.5
# CompactStar: 11
|-
# Margo Schulter: 10
|Small
# Tristan Bay: 9
|221
# Flirora: 9
|40.0
# Godtone: 9
|-
# ArrowHead294: 8
|Unnoticeable
# Lériendil: 7
|219
# Stephen Weigel: 6
|39.7
# Akselai: 5
|}
# Douglas Blumeyer: 5
# Mike Battaglia: 4
# Scott Dakota: 4


==Year named==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year named
!Amount
!% of total commas
!% of named commas
|-
|''Not named/systematic name''
|''~225''
|''~23.5''
|''n/a''
|-
|''Year unknown''
|''~225''
|''~23.5''
|''~31''
|-
|1870s
|2
|0.2
|0.3
|-
|1990s
|2
|0.2
|0.3
|-
|2000s
|57
|6.0
|7.9
|-
|2010s
|53
|5.6
|7.3
|-
|2020s
|379
|39.9
|52.3
|}


Trivia: Xenllium has named more commas than the next 5 theorists on the list combined. More than 1 out of every 4 commas documented on the wiki was named by them.
==Named by==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Named by
!Amount
!% of total commas
!% of named commas
|-
|''Not named/systematic name''
|''~225''
|''~23.5''
|''n/a''
|-
|''Anonymous''
|''~225''
|''~23.5''
|''~31''
|-
|''Others''
|''61''
|''6.4''
|''8.4''
|-
|Stephen Weigel
|6
|0.6
|0.8
|-
|Lériendil
|7
|0.7
|1.0
|-
|ArrowHead294
|8
|0.8
|1.1
|-
|Godtone
|9
|0.9
|1.2
|-
|Flirora
|9
|0.9
|1.2
|-
|Tristan Bay
|9
|0.9
|1.2
|-
|Margo Schulter
|10
|1.1
|1.4
|-
|CompactStar
|11
|1.2
|1.5
|-
|Jerdle
|12
|1.3
|1.7
|-
|Kaiveran
|14
|1.5
|1.9
|-
|Francium
|16
|1.7
|2.2
|-
|B Lambeth
|20
|2.1
|2.8
|-
|Petr Pařízek
|23
|2.4
|3.2
|-
|Paul Erlich
|23
|2.4
|3.2
|-
|Flora Canou
|26
|2.7
|3.6
|-
|Aura
|26
|2.7
|3.6
|-
|Eliora
|30
|3.2
|4.1
|-
|Gene W Smith
|38
|4.0
|5.2
|-
|Xenllium
|143
|15.1
|19.7
|}


== Named after... ==
==Named after==
* '''Regular temperament properties: 172'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
** '''The intervals the comma stacks: 73'''
!Named after
*** The periods per equave: 33
!Amount
**** Periodic table-based name: 11
!% of total commas
**** Other name: 12
!% of named commas
*** Other intervals: 40
|-
** '''Combining two temperament names: 27'''
|''Not named/systematic name''
** '''The generator of the assoc. temperament: 7'''
|''~225''
** '''How the comma divides the fifth: 5'''
|''~23.5''
** '''How the comma divides the fourth: 3'''
|''n/a''
** '''Other properties: 57'''
|-
|''Unknown namesake''
|''~300''
|''~31.5''
|''~41.5''
|-
|''Something else''
|''141''
|''14.8''
|''19.4''
|-
|A famous occurrence of a number
|20
|2.1
|2.8
|-
|A place name
|21
|2.2
|2.8
|-
|A polymath
|22
|2.3
|3.0
|-
|Two temperament names fused
|27
|2.8
|3.7
|-
|An asteroid
|32
|3.4
|4.4
|-
|A composer or theorist
|40
|4.2
|5.5
|-
|Its interval size
|43
|4.5
|5.9
|-
|The intervals it equates
|73
|7.7
|10.1
|}


* '''Individuals: ~115'''
==Named after (detailed)==
** Music theorists: 40
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
** Composers: 39
!Named after (detailed)
** Polymaths: 22
!Amount
** Fictional characters: 16
|-
** Mathematicians: 8
|''Not named/systematic name''
** Creatives in other fields: 7
|''~225''
** Controversial individuals/groups: 6
|-
** Mythology or folk characters: 4
|''Unknown namesake''
** Other individuals: 17
|''~300''
 
|-
* '''The comma's interval size: 43'''
|''Something else''
* '''Asteroids: 32'''
|''17''
* '''Place names: 21'''
|-
* '''A famous occurrence of a number: 20'''
|How it divides the fourth
* '''Non-English words: 17'''
|3
* '''Musical traditions: 16'''
|-
* '''Plays on the color name: 7'''
|Mythology or folk characters
* '''Personal events: 6'''
|4
* '''Pieces of music: 5'''
|-
* '''Something else: 17'''
|Musical compositions
 
|5
 
|-
* '''Etymology unknown: 124'''
|How it divides the fifth
* '''Systematic name only/not named: 29'''
|5
|-
|Controversial people or groups
|6
|-
|Personal happenstance
|6
|-
|Non-musical creatives
|7
|-
|Generator of its temperament
|7
|-
|Play on its color name
|7
|-
|Mathematicians
|8
|-
|Fictional characters
|16
|-
|Musical traditions
|16
|-
|Individuals (other)
|17
|-
|Non-English words
|17
|-
|A famous occurrence of a number
|20
|-
|A place name
|21
|-
|A polymath
|22
|-
|Two temperament names fused
|27
|-
|An asteroid
|32
|-
|The intervals it equates (w. equave)
|33
|-
|The intervals it equates (w. other)
|40
|-
|A composer or theorist
|40
|-
|Its interval size
|43
|}


==See also==
Pages where you can discover further details:
*[[Medium comma]]
*[[Small comma]]
*[[Unnoticeable comma]]
*[[:Category:Commas by name]]


Trivia: There are two commas named after individual cats: the ampersand comma, and the junebug comma. There do not appear to be any named after individual dogs. Not so far, anyway. The field is still young.
Similar meta-surveys about the xen community:
 
*[[User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey of todo categories]]
== See also ==
*[[Tuning regulars]]
Pages where you can discover further details:
* [[Medium comma]]
* [[Small comma]]
* [[Unnoticeable comma]]
* [[:Category:Commas by name]]


[[Category:Commas by name]]
[[Category:Commas by name]][[Category:Category:Lists for todo purposes]]
Retrieved from "https://en.xen.wiki/w/User:BudjarnLambeth/Survey_of_named_and_unnamed_commas"