Wiki Update, for real

[go_gentle]

I realized yesterday that this project is kind of two projects in one. There's the encyclopedia part, and then there's the media organization part. The encyclopedia part isn't so hard to get set up - there are good models for that already, and I think my the end of tonight or so I should have a working system to deal with encyclopedia style pages. The media organization part, though, that's harder, because I don't have a good model to base it on. I'm still working on getting that part of the project set up.

I know about The Immortality Project, which has scans of most of MCR's print media through the end of last year. Is there something similar for any of these other bands? (Please please please tell me there is.)


I think I've worked the bugs out of the stub creation process, which means I can open it up to volunteers. If you want to help out, comment with an email address or email me directly (info on my profile), and I'll let you know where the wiki is and so forth. I'm hesitant to start passing around the link to fandom at large until it gets a little more finished looking.

Very little coding knowledge is needed to do this sort of thing. If you code your LJ cuts and such by hand, you've shouldn't have too much trouble doing this. A lot of it, to be perfectly honest, is copy and paste. Ideally, this work would get done by the end of the week.

Things that need stub pages created are AAR, the Cab, The Hush Sound, The Sounds, Empires, and their members; album and song pages for all the bands; and pages for people who are part of our canon but aren't in bands proper - significant others, managers, security, whatever Dirty's role is, producers, creepy A&R guys, and so forth. There are probably several things I'm forgetting here, too, so feel free to point them out as you go.

These pages, and the existing pages, should probably be tagged by category. For example, Singers, Guitarists, Bassists, Drummers, Keytarists, Keyboardists, etc, as well as Members of [insert band here], and Former Band Members. (The code is [[Category:Singers]] to put a page in the singer category, for example, and just drop that code at the end of a page to tag it as such.)

Right. Any questions?

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[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

stele32002 at yahoo. I fear that my contributions must be somewhat limited if you want this done by the end of the week: I'm on dialup right now, and though I'm working on getting high-speed Internet access, I shan't have it before the end of the week.