Help: FAQ

Note the chord placement discrepancies. Left: Firefox 30.0 on Windows 8.1, Right: Safari 8.0 on MacOS Yosemite

Main advantage: Anyone can add new songs and edit existing ones.
- Without anyone being able to contribute, the spivanyk will fall out of date.
- We see this when new songs like Безмежне життя, Чекатиму, and Село become popular and are passed around handwritten or verbally instead of in a convenient, central place.
- Even classics like Ясний вогник were glaringly absent from the internet before this project.
- This also allows anyone to update the list of renditions so we don't end up with so many songs with broken links or without renditions at all.
In При Ватрі, the way chords are shown (i.e. using a variable-width font) means that they will not show up in the same position in every browser. This is a real issue, as you can see in the screenshot comparison to the right. WikiSpiv renders by telling the browser to align each individual chord above the correct letter to mitigate this problem.
By using the open MediaWiki platform, anyone can create applications which interface with our database. This would allow one to make, say, an extension for InDesign which imports songs. The possibilities are endless!

It's a work in progress. As a stop-gap, the website is mobile-friendly.

Данило Сенторе at Daniel.Centore@gmail.com