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Well... This should handle the exclusion part. Might take a while to run, though. mysqldump -u mysqluser -p password wikidb --ignore-table=wikidb.wiki_user > wikidb.sql Now for the users... mysql -p password -u mysqluser testwikidb -X < userselect.sql | fgrep -v "<field name=\"user_passwor...

Well, one way would be to exclude the user table on a mysqldump and handle it seperately... Not sure exactly how you'd handle it separately, though; I didn't see a command in mysqldump to exclude a field.

ArcticWind7 wrote:Carolus, what pieces would IMSLP lose from getting rid of the US server (Apart from Stravinsky)?

A good point - being a USAian I'd like to get those to make sure they're available _somewhere_.

And yet, the intentions of a not for profit board can be as self serving as that of a for profit board or corporate owner. There are plenty of examples of that in Canada and elsewhere. That's certainly true, though it seems to me that for-profit corps tend to have a greater incentive to monetize wh...

Two things: 1) I would much prefer a non-profit charitable organization be in charge. If that's possible with the holding company (however it would be set up), fine. But I'm leery of any for-profit company gaining control of IMSLP, no matter how good the original intentions are (and not to disrespec...

The crux of such a distributed project is to keep the commitment needed to contribute under a certain, rather low threshold. Looking at music, this certainly means breaking up pages into single staffs (software might help here), and maybe even introducing various rounds to add information types. Ro...

...And I have more than one score on Mutopia myself (not many, though).

Actually, Mutopia has been doing something similar I believe :) I remember seeing several scores on Mutopia that has "IMSLP" as the source. True, and I highly support and encourage Mutopia, but it has (IIRC) two main differences: First, they restrict themselves to pre-1923 AND life+70 (un...

Depends on who you ask ;) Bach will tell you that they are not needed at all, whereas someone like Babbitt (Milton) will probably tell you that you cannot mis-position the thing by a pixel (that's an exaggeration of course, but you get what I mean). Generally speaking, the classical music world is ...

The issue with OCRing actual scores is that music OCR is on the order of magnitudes harder than text OCR. A few years ago I did a little test with Finale (2003 I think), where I exported a simple score as a TIFF file, and then ran the OCR provided by Finale over the score. The results were... depre...

Ha, I should've been clearer: I'm thinking of something automatic, e.g. a plugin for some existing score editor that will automatically fetch a scanned line and its OMR'd notes, let the user edit, and then upload back to the server, automatically. That way it won't hurt the two minutes concept, whi...

I guess I'll chime in here... I have no particular objection to advertising along the lines of Google ads - provided they're used to support the site. Image ads tend to be ugly and, if they're served from elsewhere, you can never be quite sure what you'll get. I have no objection to publishers provi...

Chopping the images doesn't have to be very difficult using the code of an existing OMR software (optical music recognition) as it can detect staves etc. See audiveris http://audiveris.dev.java.net/, not very useful yet but looks promising. I wasn't aware of this one; I'll take a look at it! A brow...

Actually, while I fully support the discussion that's occurring here, I DO think it should be moved to another, more relevant (new?) thread (this thread IS "Support for Feldmahler and IMSLP", after all).

Hurrah! Congratulations to Mutopia!