Xenharmonic Wiki talk:Things to do
Automatic color names?
Has somebody mused about generating suitable humane color names for intervals and other things? For example, for an interval, one needs to know whether to name it a third, a fourth, a sixth, but AFAIU they are often scale-dependent, and the same interval can have a “(color 1) third” name and a “(color 2) fourth” name. What can be done obviously is to enumerate the most sensible of potential cases (like if the interval is between 5/4 and 4/3, likely it will function more often as a third or fourth and less often as a second or fifth), but one needs to be able to tell for example if 7/5 may called a fourth, or there’s a sense it should be called a fifth way more often than a fourth. I’d try to write some code to guess appropriate color names, but having advice beforehand would be very nice. --Arseniiv (talk) 18:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
It would be also worth it to add this page to the navigation close to Help and Conventions, even if later. --Arseniiv (talk) 21:09, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
- We'll do that soon. But I think that we should first have to clarify its structure. I'd prefer dedicated pages one per task (maybe as sub pages). We should have a handful of clearly defined projects available before we link this overview in the navigation. The style of the existing ones will silently work as a blueprint for future projects, so we better limit confusion to a minimum. a bit of styling (for the intro in the header) could also help to make this site as inviting as possible. --Xenwolf (talk) 21:40, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Template:Stub
I hope that would be found useful to automatically categorize pages as needing attention (maybe even different kinds of attention?), as well as marking the places needing elaboration. For example, right on this page until it’s “production ready” ;-) I’ll investigate later if I’m up to the task to desigh a nice-looking template but if you know how to do it easily, please feel free to! --Arseniiv (talk) 17:43, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
- Before thinking about an appropriate Template:Stub, I think Category:Todo is worth a look, as well as its sub categories, these category developed out of wikispaces tags and are maybe more specific then just stub. --Xenwolf (talk) 18:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
- The template with an example of how it looks: User:Arseniiv/TodoTest. It seems to apply the category correctly. Maybe that can find some use still, but if not, no problem. --Arseniiv (talk) 19:51, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
- I moved this discussion from Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do to here, since it's not decided yet whether it should go into the list. --Xenwolf (talk) 12:42, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
- Now that two days have passed and no new things to add or remove arose, maybe we should now migrate the Todo template to the template namespace and start sticking it everywhere :) Also it’s very nice Template:Infobox interval automatically adds todo categories, I think this is a way to go with other specialized templates, should they apper later. --Arseniiv (talk) 14:28, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Infobox for EDO pages
Let’s list what should be present in the template:
- step count
- period? (for EDT and several others?)
- step size
- commas tempered out
- notable commas not tempered out? (possibly with an example of distinguished JI intervals?)
- family?
- JI subgroup represented fairly well? (and a patent val?)
- notable modes?
- related EDOs? (maybe more specific relations, like “refines 11edo”?)
Relations of various interval categories
There are Category:Interval, Category:Just interval, Category:Interval ratio and Category:Ratio with different content of m/n pages like 3/2. Maybe someone knows if there was an intention behind that?
Also there seems to be a forgotten todo in the description of Category:Intervals. --Arseniiv (talk) 16:06, 7 November 2020 (UTC)