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Xenharmonic Wiki:WikiProject Just Intonation

Welcome to the Just Intonation WikiProject!

Goals
  • To write quality pages about just intonation topics that do not have articles yet.
  • To write quality pages about major figures in the world of just intonation and their theories and works (e.g. Harry Partch, Erv Wilson).
  • To expand pages about just intonation (especially stub pages and Scala file pages) by adding more description of the subject matter.
  • To add visual aids to pages about just intonation.
  • To add music or sound examples to pages about just intonation.
  • To add citations or sources to pages about just intonation (where appropriate).
Scope
  • This project covers all articles in the categories listed under "Categories under Jurisdiction".

Members

Names in alphabetical order by surname/username; feel free to add your name if you want to be involved.

Special thanks

Open tasks

Broad/general tasks

  • Create a high-quality, encyclopedic article for every important JI scale, JI instrument or other JI concept, rather than just stubs or unexplained tables or lists of numbers.
  • Add audio examples (of JI chords, scale studies, and of course actual tracks) to as many articles as possible, to demonstrate the musical properties of JI scales and chords.
  • Rectify many names of Scala file pages that might be confusing or interfere with other uses of words.
  • Establish a system to denote articles under the project's scope that demonstrate particular quality.
  • Add scale circle diagrams to any JI scale pages where a scale circle diagrams makes sense (feel free to use any software to generate your diagrams; ScaleCircle by Nick Vuci is recommended due to ease of use and clean visual style).

Tasks underway by members

(There is no exact time frame for these tasks as this work is being done by volunteers in their free time.)

(Other users besides me are welcome to help with these too!)

    • Recruit more members (especially an expert on Harry Partch, an expert on Erv Wilson, or an expert on primodality).
    • Examine the names of all Scala file pages and rename those with confusing or ambiguous names.
    • Find all examples of multiple similar Scala file pages (eg "exampletone10", "exampletone15", "exampletone_major") and merge them into scale galleries.
    • Record improvisations using JI scales that have no music examples, and post those as examples on the relevant scale pages.
    • Add handmade tables of intervals to pages about JI scales that have a fixed tonic (are not rotatable).
    • Add all new hexany, dekany, bihexany, etc. pages to the 'Gallery of combination product sets'.
    • Keep 'Gallery of combination product sets' as readable and navigable as possible as it gets longer (e.g. by adding subheadings).

(Other users besides me are welcome to help with these too!)

    • Create short but quality pages for every hexany at least up to the 15-odd-limit.
      • Create short but quality pages for several bihexanies based upon these.
    • Create short but quality pages for every dekany at least up to the 15-odd-limit.
    • Create short but quality pages for every pentadekany at least up to the 15-odd-limit.
    • Create short but quality pages for every eikosany at least up to the 15-odd-limit.
    • Create tables that allow sorting hexanies, dekanies, etc. in multiple ways (odd limit, prime limit, lowest divisor, sum total, any others we think of).

Tasks not yet claimed by members

Requested pages

Requested audio & images

  • At least 1 scale circle image or any other visual aid for every page about a just intonation scale.
  • At least 1 scale circle image or any other visual aid for every JI scale gallery page.
  • At least 1 musical example for every page about a just intonation scale. (Any length is okay, whether 5 seconds, 5 hours, or anywhere in between.)

Cleanup requests

See: Category:Under review by WikiProject Just Intonation

Proposals for future direction

  • When Zhea Erose completes the treatise on primodality, document the theory described therein (in your own words; do not plagiarise; reference specific pages so readers can learn more).

Completed tasks

Categories under jurisdiction

Templates

Further templates could be considered (e.g. infoboxes, a featured article template).

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