There are Wikipedia-articles about Dorico only in 6 languages (but 19 about Sibelius, 14 about Finale, 27 about LilyPond, 27 about MuseScore).
We users should change that!
I will write a Dutch Wikipedia article at the end of next week (I won’t be able to do it sooner) if there are still 5 people here for other languages! Chinese, German, French, Italian and more than 300 other languages are missing!
Who wants to join in?
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As far as compositional style, the Barbershop Harmony Society has just published volume 1 of an updated arranging manual, called Arranging Barbershop Harmony, v.1: Getting Started. You can get it from Sheet Music Plus or from the BHS (https://shop.barbershop.org/). The BHS does have a house style and notational guidelines, now being updated. You can see the house style in action by ordering any piece of published music from the BHS website. The BHS has a major educational event called Harmony University, which is held every summer. The BHS might not be an academic institution, but there are many academics who participate in the hobby and teach singing, arranging, songwriting, and many other things. The level of their education might surprise you. Dorico hasn’t really caught on in the barbershop world - I’ve proposed a class on Dorico for Harmony University. I think barbershoppers would really like it once they’ve tried it.
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Dorico now has a Norwegian Wikipedia page (in contrast to Finale and Sibelius). Blatant CtrlV from the English page, so heavy work needed, but it’s a start.
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Very nice! There is already a short new article in Esperanto!
Haha excellent! I’d say someone needs to work on their time management skills though (not unlike a certain Norwegian who just finished ad-hoc translating a god-damn version history log).
Great! There is now also an article in Twi! I will do Dutch this weekend (but only a short version, because of lack of time).
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Fantastic! With these languages, I’d say most of the important populations will surely be reached.
Anyway, currently the only “showcase” of dorico on the wikis is a rather basic illustration of a condensed score. Anyone know of better representation of the software interface and the musical output?
In general, for the english page and its derivatives, there is a lot lacking when it comes to describing the programme interface and how it compares to earlier notation software. There is also little information on reception and adaption.
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Great idea, I’ll try to write one in Polish (“try” as in I know Polish well enough, but need to see about the time management 
). If there are any Polish speakers who’d want to collaborate on that, hit me up!
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