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Well done folks on the open Bach project, what a great addition to Commons. Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 12:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Absolutely great Bach projects - both the WT Klavier and the Goldberg Variations. It looks like both were funded through kickstarter at bargain basement prices, $40,000 for WTK and $20,000 for GV. It seems like Wikimedia could organize itself to help fund some of these, not just Bach and western music, but African, Indian, Japanese, etc. Well, it's always temping to tell the WMF how to spend money, but I imagine a committee of editors going to possible uploader/musicians and saying, "fund your projects through kickstarter, make the recordings PD, and we'll kick in the final $5,000. BTW this invitation goes out to multiple musicians and we have a budget of $50,000 this year." An idea, don't know how it would work in practice. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)