Lessons/Lectures, etc. ->

and if the current ones don't have time a team of reviewers could be started for just this purpose

I added that to avoid the reviewers are busy and have many resposibilities arguement :P

who are the other reviewers? I only know of you, Marius, Evan and i knew QC used to be one

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/stafflist.php

You can find the Staff List at the bottom right hand corner of the Forum Index.

You might be thinking of this:

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/reviewers.php

One question: How do we prevent people that have no idea what they're talking about from posting "lectures"?

What I'd suggest is restricting a certain section of the wiki to articles and disabling the creation of new pages within it for standard users. If someone wishes to submit a new article, they could PM it in full to a mod/reviewer who, at their discretion (or possibly on consensus among other reviewers/mods, like with MW), would add it to the system. If instead they wish to reserve a spot for a future article they are in the process of writing, they could PM a mod/reviewer requesting that, too. I guess the best way to manage article reservations would be for the reviewer/mod to create a new wiki page for the article in question, but in a locked state, with an "under construction" type message in its place. Then, once the writer is done, they could pass on the finished article so that the content may be inserted and the page unlocked.

Makes sense to me. I do think we need to have some kind of quality control, yes, otherwise credibility may suffer.

P.S. No sign of integration yet...

As for the whole idea of having lessons, the teachers will be picked by the staff. They are the ones a composer must choose from when posting a new piece, to have a 'lesson' with.

Well, I don't understand what this Wiki thing has to do with composition lessons anyway...

It's Wiki-d, ma-a-a-an....

:D

Clarification:

Lesson = one-to-one teacher-student tuition conducted in an as yet uncreated forum.

Lecture = a composition/music article made available for anyone to read.

Probably should have made that clearer earlier.

Both of these concepts have been touched on in this thread. I'm up for implementing both, too. But I believe that the latter would be better executed with the wiki, and better executed still with forum/wiki integration in place. Which is extremely easily doable now, at a relatively small cost. Just gotta wait for the other Mike...

By the way, as far as I'm concerned, the terms "lecture" and "article" should be interchangeable. I think the idea of continually serving up podcasts or anything like that (actual audible lectures) is less workable (plus more expensive), and would reduce the amount of eventual throughput. That isn't to say that we'd refuse an audio lecture if it was offered (and decent), of course.

why not start a thread asking about who would be interested in contributing to the wiki so if/when we get it working we know there'll be something to put in it besides the few that are in Advice and Techniques?

Clarification:

Lesson = one-to-one teacher-student tuition conducted in an as yet uncreated forum.

Lecture = a composition/music article made available for anyone to read.

Probably should have made that clearer earlier.

Both of these concepts have been touched on in this thread. I'm up for implementing both, too. But I believe that the latter would be better executed with the wiki, and better executed still with forum/wiki integration in place. Which is extremely easily doable now, at a relatively small cost. Just gotta wait for the other Mike...

By the way, as far as I'm concerned, the terms "lecture" and "article" should be interchangeable. I think the idea of continually serving up podcasts or anything like that (actual audible lectures) is less workable (plus more expensive), and would reduce the amount of eventual throughput. That isn't to say that we'd refuse an audio lecture if it was offered (and decent), of course.

In the Wiki

Both of these concepts have been touched on in this thread. I'm up for implementing both, too. But I believe that the latter would be better executed with the wiki, and better executed still with forum/wiki integration in place. Which is extremely easily doable now, at a relatively small cost. Just gotta wait for the other Mike...

hopefully some time soon then...

Aren't wikis editable by everyone?

yes, but a lock can be put on to stop anyone alterig anything without approval

why not start a thread asking about who would be interested in contributing to the wiki so if/when we get it working we know there'll be something to put in it besides the few that are in Advice and Techniques?

I would, but since I'm now really not sure of the time frame involved, I'd prefer to avoid leaving everyone hanging in mid air. :P

fair point, although it would give people time to think about something they might write about and maybe start writing it.

Rather than starting a new thread for the purpose, I think it is reasonable to assume that those who may be interested will have already read through at least some of this one.

But, just to make things crystal clear: we're going to be integrating soon*; if you want to write, have a think! :P

*This week. (The other) Mike took a little time out to appraise the financial merits of purchasing the integration package. Luckily for us, he came to the conclusion that yes, it would indeed be worth the money. He's busy today and tomorrow, but will get the ball rolling after that.

And what about the composition lessons project? Is that still up in the air, or could we get the ball rolling on that? I could start it if need be.

Question: who would qualify as a "teacher" ?

*phew*

I just got done writing my 3-page article on Thematic Material and it's development.

cool, look forward to reading that :whistling:

...AND I'm almost done with one entitled "Emotion, Universality, and the Fabric of Composition". It's more of a short dissertation on my opinion of music :ermm:

I want to read it!

It's quite excellent, don't worry; it's worth the wait :ermm:

:D

Nah, this is actually quite likely to be up and running by tomorrow, I'd say.

? ;)

*quite likely* is the key, Mark... *quite likely* ;) Give it a week

I will be wary of giving estimates over matters I am not in control of in future. ;)