Xenharmonic Wiki:I'm a new editor, what is everything I can do to help?
There are many possible things you can do. This is a sampling of some of them. Pick and choose whichever sound the most interesting to you.
Small tasks
Add examples
Add examples to one of the pages in Category:Todo:add examples.
Write a missing introduction
Write an introduction for one of the pages in Category:Todo:intro.
Finish a list or table
Complete one of the incomplete lists or tables from Category:Todo:complete list or Category:Todo:complete table respectively.
Resurrect a dead link
Go to one of the pages in Category:Pages containing dead links.
Try to find a live version of the link's target online. Perhaps Wayback Machine might have one.
If you can find a live version, then update the link to point to that.
If you can't find one, do not delete the link. Instead, post on the talk page and list every place you've looked so far, so that future searchers don't have to tread the same ground.
Transfer a page from riters.com
If riters.com/microtonal has pages on anything that Xenharmonic Wiki doesn't have yet, then copy it over into Xenharmonic Wiki.
Intermediate tasks
Answer a question
If you know the answers to any questions on FAQ or any other page in Category:Todo:answer questions, then edit the page to add your answers.
Add an audio example
Almost every page on the wiki is in need of audio examples, so that readers can hear what the concepts actually sound like.
If you can add such audio examples, please do so.
Add an illustration
Add an illustration to one of the pages in Category:Todo:add illustration.
Create a choose-an-EDO flow chart
Create a flow chart to help readers choose an EDO to make music with. Link your flow chart in Edo recommendation hub page.
Add a rank 2 temperaments table
Add a rank 2 temperaments table to one of the pages in Category:Todo:add rank 2 temperaments table.
Check out some edo pages (e.g. 26edo, 27edo, 28edo) to get an idea of what rank 2 temperaments tables look like.
Finish a section
Complete one of the incomplete page subsections from Category:Todo:complete section.
Large tasks
Recommend the EDOs you like
Create a page where you recommend a list of edos to beginners.
Follow the standardised structure shown on the page Edo recommendation hub page to make it easy for readers to compare with the other lists.
When your page is done, link it on Edo recommendation hub page.
Become the resident expert on x
Choose an article about a tuning or scale from Category:Stubs or Category:Todo:expand.
Make some music with that tuning, and document your process every step along your way:
- What subset scales you tried that didn't work.
- What ones did.
- What instruments or synth settings sounded bad.
- What ones sounded good.
- Literally every little detail, document it all.
By the time you're done, you will probably know more about that tuning than anybody else in the world ever has. You will now be more qualified to write its page than anyone else.
Go ahead and expand the stub or todo:expand page with those notes you gathered as a guide, and add a link to your musical example(s) too.
Now you have taken the page from almost empty, to one of the best written, most complete on the wiki!
For special skillsets
Mathematics
Correct the mathematics on a page
If you have some experience with mathematics, go to one of the pages in Category:Todo:correct maths and make sure all the mathematics written on the page is correct. If it's not, correct it.
Make a page more accessible
Write a simplified version of one of the pages listed in either Category:Inaccessible pages or Category:Todo:reduce mathslang.
Make it fully understandable to non-mathematicians.
Post it as a new, separate page on the wiki.
Journalism, modern history or social science
Fact check
Do any of the following, whichever ones interest you:
- Check facts for pages in Category:Todo:confirm and Category:Todo:research
- Update time-sensitive facts (e.g. whether someone is or was active, whethee they are studying or did study at x, etc.) for pages in Category:Todo:update
Find sources
Do any of the following, whichever ones interest you:
- Find and add etymology for pages in Category:Todo:add etymology
- Find and add sources for pages in Category:Todo:add source and Category:Pages with unsourced statements
- Find how a page in Category:Todo:explain its xenharmonic value relates to microtonality or musical tuning, and edit the page to explain how
Lua
Write documentation for a template or module
If you have some experience with Lua, we need your help to write documentation for the templates or modules in Category:Todo:Documentation
Ethnomusicology
Improve a page
The following pages are in need of drastic improvement by experts in the field, please improve them:
- African music
- Arabic, Turkish, Persian music
- Georgian music
- Indian music
- Indonesian music
- Pre-Columbian South American music
Create a page
The following pages are needed, but have not yet been created. If you are an expert in the field, please create them.
Note that given the nature of this wiki, the pages should focus on musical tuning first and foremost:
- Separate pages for some different musical traditions within Africa
- Separate pages for Arabic music, Turkish music and Iranian music
- A page for Thai music
- A page for Chinese music (ancient & modern)
- Pages for non-Western composers and musicians who use microtuning
Music history
Improve a page
The following articles are in need of drastic improvement by experts in the field, please improve them:
- Historical temperaments
- And all the examples listed therein
- Ancient Greek music
Create a page
The following pages are needed, but have not yet been created. If you are an expert in the field, please create them.
Note that given the nature of this wiki, the pages should focus on musical tuning first and foremost:
- A page for Byzantine music
- A page for Medieval European music
- All the red links on the page Historical temperaments
- Pages for historical composers who used microtuning
Any non-English language
Contribute
If the language you know already has a Xen Wiki interwiki - contribute to it! Write pages for it.
Initiate
If it does not yet have an interwiki, start writing pages in your language in the main English Xen Wiki and eventually they will be moved into their own site.
Large EDOs
Curate a table
Go to one of the pages in Category:Todo:Replace auto-generated table of intervals with manually curated table.
Create a manual, annotated version of the table using a wikitable.
Google how to do make wikitables if you're not sure how, or use the visual editor. Excel2Wiki may also prove helpful.
MOS scales
Write an introductory guide
Write a thorough introduction to MOS scales from the point of view of a musician who knows nothing about them and just wants to know how to make music with them and how different ones sound and feel.
Comma pumps
Add a comma pump to a comma page
Go to any page in Category:Commas and its subcategories. Edit the page and describe a comma pump that uses the comma. Follow the style of the Frameshift comma page.
Want more to do?
Check out Xenharmonic Wiki:Things to do and Wikifuture.