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by Davydov
Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:49 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Global change for "Muzyka" requested
Replies: 16
Views: 7387

I'd agree that there is scope in the "Alternative Title" boxes and some work lists of Russian composers for titles to appear in Cyrillic, along with transliterations for those people whose browsers don't show Cyrillic characters. As far as transliterations themselves go, IMSLP currently us...
by Davydov
Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:11 pm
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Global change for "Muzyka" requested
Replies: 16
Views: 7387

OK. I've been through and manually changed all pages that linked to "Muzika" to point to "Muzyka". It took well under two hours, but at least it won't add to Feldmahler's busy workload :) This process wouldn't find other lurking references to "Muzika" that weren't enclo...
by Davydov
Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:44 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Global change for "Muzyka" requested
Replies: 16
Views: 7387

"Muzyka" is how the publishers themselves spell their name in English, so Lyle's suggestion is a good one. There are a few different systems of transliteration from the Russian, which (for understandable reasons) aren't always applied consistently on IMSLP. Maybe we should follow the polic...
by Davydov
Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:11 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Hierarchy in work pages
Replies: 28
Views: 65959

Yesterday I attempted to reclassifying Tchaikovsky's works based on the last guidelines suggested above, and they seemed to work pretty well. If a work existed in more than one version (such as T's and Fitzenhagen's scores of the Rococo Variation), then this was the 'top' level, with the composer's ...
by Davydov
Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:13 am
Forum: Moderator Requests - Help - FAQ
Topic: Hierarchy in work pages
Replies: 28
Views: 65959

I’d certainly agree that we need a more organized method of displaying the information on each work page. After playing around for a few hours with the system listed above, I'd like to propose two main changes. The first of these would be to remove the top-level distinction between complete works an...