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[[User:Inthar|Inthar]] ([[User talk:Inthar|talk]]) 21:15, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

== Organization of music references ==

After cleaning up (or setting up) the Music sections in a few edo pages ([[0edo]] through [[6edo]] so far), I've started to think that maintaining lists like these manually is probably the reason why they end up outdated most of the time. I thought, maybe a xenharmonic music database would be better suited for that, in which each piece could be tagged with its tuning(s), scale(s) if applicable, etc. And then I noted that the Wiki is basically a database of pages and other stuff, and that using the Wiki could be an option. Of course, music will have to be added manually, but that's the price for having a platform-independent database; the advantage to be able to filter by genre or by tuning seems to be worth the effort to me.

So I was wondering, are there technical issues that would arise if we were to create individual pages for each track instead of building large tables spread over multiple pages as we currently do? It seems to me that there are already a lot of pages because of all these intervals and scales having individual pages, so I don't see what sort of problem could arise, but I'm asking in case I'm missing something. Also, if you're aware of automating tools that could be helpful in setting up multiple pages (e.g. reading from a .csv file and creating pages in bulk), that could be handy as well. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 03:23, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

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+== Organization of music references ==
+After cleaning up (or setting up) the Music sections in a few edo pages ([[0edo]] through [[6edo]] so far), I've started to think that maintaining lists like these manually is probably the reason why they end up outdated most of the time. I thought, maybe a xenharmonic music database would be better suited for that, in which each piece could be tagged with its tuning(s), scale(s) if applicable, etc. And then I noted that the Wiki is basically a database of pages and other stuff, and that using the Wiki could be an option. Of course, music will have to be added manually, but that's the price for having a platform-independent database; the advantage to be able to filter by genre or by tuning seems to be worth the effort to me.
+So I was wondering, are there technical issues that would arise if we were to create individual pages for each track instead of building large tables spread over multiple pages as we currently do? It seems to me that there are already a lot of pages because of all these intervals and scales having individual pages, so I don't see what sort of problem could arise, but I'm asking in case I'm missing something. Also, if you're aware of automating tools that could be helpful in setting up multiple pages (e.g. reading from a .csv file and creating pages in bulk), that could be handy as well. [[User:Fredg999|Fredg999]] ([[User talk:Fredg999|talk]]) 03:23, 26 July 2021 (UTC)