Re: LSR in dismission

>> Yeah, having a Wiki for the LSR data sounds great.  However, what's
>> still needed IMHO is an equivalent to the current search engine,
>> i.e., something that brings up images if you search for given
>> terms.  AFAIK, this is not offered by Wikis, which are text-based,
>> and public Web search engines are not good at that either.  Maybe
>> I'm wrong, and I'd really love to be corrected.  Perhaps the search
>> engine code used for commons.wikimedia.org could be massaged
>> accordingly?
> 
> This is certainly nice to have but is it necessary?

Let's say it would be tremendously helpful – the exact terms for
describing music with text are sometimes value or imprecise, but with
an image you can in most cases see immediately whether a snippet fits
or doesn't fit.

> Over the past few days, I've been tinkering with this, and here
> is the result:
> 
>   https://wiki.lilypond.community

This is great!  Thanks a lot for your efforts.

> If people like this, I'm willing to do the remaining things
> to get it off the ground, like writing help pages, then keep
> it running and pay for the server costs.

I like it, and maybe there are hooks into the MediaWiki search engine
to also show, say, the first image of a page (or a marked one) for a
search result.

> I'm not currently willing to involve myself much more than that,
> though — this includes upgrading of snippets to newer LilyPond
> versions in the future, and also updating the makelsr.py script (I
> just don't have the energy to fight the doc build again, sorry...).

I will most certainly take care of the `makelsr.pl` script.  It will
take some time to get acquainted with the MediaWiki API, though.


    Werner