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mark jamerson wrote:
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> The Csound Wiki has been completely bombarded with hacking, and I can't
> seem to find the revert option anywhere. Is anyone still acting as
> administrator to it, or has it been abandoned? Just curious.
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> Mark
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I had the idea: if there were a Csound WIKI, it might help address the
problems of a Csound beginner (which I still consider myself to be.) So when
I went to where it used to be, then found this posting, I was somewhat
dejected.
I found the recent discussions with Jim Aikin very interesting since (a) he
is definitely not a beginner when it comes to electronic music technology
and (b) it was his goal to be able to write an article that would make
Csound comprehensible to an interested musician, presumably relatively
conversant with both electronic music and computer technology. Apparently he
sort of abandoned the project as too intractable.
A wiki for Csound would have some definite advantages. One of the problems I
continually encounter in my explorations is the detritus of the past. Csound
is so venerable, and has been worked on by so many people, that the archives
are littered with projects that have been superseded, discontinued or
updated. Like CsoundVST to take just one example. Searching for that you
find that it was included in some versions of Csound but not the latest,
discussions of the Silence system, CsoundAC, and so forth. But there's no
simple way to find out what (a) its latest status is and (b) how to simply
use it in a particular host.
A wiki would allow for easy location of information about peoples'
particular interests: Csound tutorials, various front ends that are still
supported and/or used, GUIs and editors that are still relevant, the API and
its hooks for various languages, real time and MIDI use, use as a VST,
history, building from source on different platforms, etc. etc. Right now
all that information is spread across hundreds of websites, countless
articles in this forum, and elsewhere.
The biggest advantage of a wiki, the way I'm thinking now, is that hopefully
only the newest information will go in at first. For instance, which version
of Python you need to work with Csound, and how you need to install and
configure it.
I could go on but this probably outlines my thoughts. Hopefully there is
little enough controversy in Csound that there would need to be any
moderation issues. Spammers and hackers are always a problem, of course, but
other wikis seem to be able to operate.
Here's one for Python documentation http://www.python.org/doc/
One for Cakewalk's Project5 application
http://p5.sonarama.com/index.php?title=Home
And the one for ChucK http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucK
None of these are perfect but they should roughly convey the idea...
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