Do we want to have a volunteer project to create score requests for the NOTFOUND-on-CPDL pieces at
the St. Ann's page of translations? Or leave that up to individuals to request the pieces they want under their own login ID?
alternate spelling project should apply to score titles as well as composers
The section about redirects for alternate spellings should focus not just on composer names, but also the spelling of songs. E.g.: Descendi In Ortum Meum vs. Hortum. I'm thinking that no edit needs to be made to the composer page to indicate the alternate spelling, since once someone can eyeball the titles, they'll recognize the alternate spelling.
I agree completely. A redirect to a page whose title has a word with a common alternate spelling is entirely appropriate. And you are right about it being unnecessary to list a work on a composer page together with its alternate spellings.
Another point should perhaps be made here, and that is the difficulty of locating a page through a wiki search whose title has unusual diacritics or characters, such as: þ, Æ, ß, ç, œ, ł, ʒ - or vowels with unexpected accents. For such cases it is entirely appropriate to list the title with an alternate spelling with standard English characters only at the top of the page (as with "Aliases") and also to use a sort key (with the standard English rendering) for categories placed on the page - so that the page will sort correctly in categories in which it is placed.
Hi Vaarky. Your suggestion of creating redirects for alternative spelling is indeed valid and has been done before. The problem we've found is that redirects don't show up neither in the wiki Search nor on Google search (try with Adiuro vos filiae Jerusalem). So, the redirects end up being useless. Perhaps it would be more effective to add the alternative spellings inside the works page, after the "official" title, as we do with the "Aliases" field in composer pages.
I think that, with newer versions of the wiki software, it is possible to set ones search preferences to include redirects. Our current version does not permit this, however.
Is there some other benefit to not using redirects and instead opting to put the alternate terms on the score page, such as saving disk space (less overhead if not creating a page?) or filename slots in the filesystem?
