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Re Special:Mimesearch - Its not really meant for normal users. Its also not very useful in general (Getting a list of all jpg files is pretty useless when there are millions of them). Anything in particular you want me to document about it (and any particular place you'd expect to find documentation
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gets a list of them. I should note, special:mimesearch is not a new feature, it was just rewritten to have better performance. Previously it was just turned off on wikimedia wikis. Additionally it doesn't support wildcards at the moment, so you can't just get all "audio" files, you have to look at
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Animated PNGs extend the PNG specification in a such a way that older software that deal with PNG will show just the first frame. I am guessing that the problem has to do with the failure to resize the remaining frames. We have quite a few on
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Yes that's correct. You can use APNG in articles provided you specify the full sized image, and not a thumbnail (There should be a warning on the image description page of any APNG image). However APNGs are not supported in all browsers.
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Thanks. After years of not editing WikiSource I just realized that I have no idea how to edit WikiSource with the new stuff that's been added since :) It is very cool though, I intend to learn eventually and add some PD piano scores.
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This is a new feature, and, frankly, the documentation is still abyssmal. I believe most of the documentation presumed the user would be typing in the LilyPond by hand. This is never going to happen except for the shortest scores.
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files larger than 35 megapixels has been improved, helping to address an issue where uploading a lossless copy of a large image would result in a failure to create a thumbnail, giving the unfortunate impression that the file was
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images, and can also transform those scores into audio and MIDI files automatically. An example of the extension's output, together with the corresponding LilyPond markup, is shown below:
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Generating musical scores with LilyPond: Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular LilyPond format to embed musical scores in articles.
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It could use a list of the filetypes that can be searched for, or at least the types, e.g. image/, audio/, etc. I realise it's not the most useful search tool.
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that explains how to use a keyboard or one of several score-based editors to create LilyPond markup that can be imported into Knowledge articles.
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In theory you could search for any mime type (there are literally thousands). In practise there are very few actually in use on commons -
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PNG thumbnailer enhancements+fixes - too bad this did not include a fix for resizing animated PNGs while retaining the animation.
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has written a series of blog posts highlighting innovative uses of Wikidata. The selected projects include automatically creating
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for a file, you can get a list of all files of that type. For example, we recently started to allow wav files on commons -
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Lilypond section FAQ - Section "How do I learn the syntax?" has a link to a Tutorial which is dead and goes nowhere
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Is there a tutorial on how to adapt an existing lilypond script to run in the score tags? I tried in vain to make
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Yes. There was a bug until very recently that prevented long works. However, Wikisource has a few things like "
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just last week to provide a way of falling back from APNGs to GIFs for users whose browsers don't support them.
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I don't seem to see the score tag associated with the Yankee Doodle example above. A direct link please.
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type, has been enabled on all Wikimedia projects following a series of performance improvements.
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about it)? It pretty much does what it's name is. If you happen to know the
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More details on the options provided by the extension can be found on
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Thanks to a new MediaWiki extension, editors can now use the popular
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Has anyone tried using LilyPond to put sheet music on WikiSource? —
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Lilypond section - MediaWiki link is dead and goes nowhere.
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PNGs don't have animation. I think you're thinking GIF.
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for Kimigayo (The Japanese National Anthem of 1917) -
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