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Dec 01, 2012 13:56

You may or may not have heard that I am starting a Wiki for Chess-- meaning, like Wikipedia or TV Tropes, a collection of articles about things related to Chess that anyone can edit. The wiki is running PmWiki, which is the same type of wiki TVTropes runs on.

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chibisilverwing December 2 2012, 07:24:41 UTC

I think this format and your ideas all sound pretty good, I think the main thing to be concerned about is just to be constant and from there, people will get the hang of it. I've not even done any editing on current wikis so my advice is sadly lacking, but I'd love to see a project like this. Good luck and let us know when you make more progress!

zedille December 3 2012, 09:43:38 UTC

(now do you understand my pain when I think about trying to organize/list bootlegs?! Though speaking of which, I'll get back to doing that now, and maybe I can finish with that by the end of the year.)

So categories -- are you distinguishing concerts vs stage productions? Or semi-staged concerts? There's a whole spectrum there. And, huh, I just realized, why do we talk about the London version and not the "New York" version? Is it the Sydney production (what I prefer) or the Australian production? Eh, well, having years will be helpful for all that ( ... )

arqueete December 3 2012, 18:20:52 UTC

apologies in advance I'm on my phone because this is how I choose to spend my lunch breaks

One thing that's relevant to a couple of your points is that pmwiki has something called i think groups which are like tags. i havent tried to use them for anything yet. on tvtropes, especially for indv. works you see them use this for the sections at the bottom of the page indicating that its from the 90s or a comedy etc and somethimes on trope pages too.

i think we can definitely keep song lyrics on song pages etc.

let me send this so i can go reread your post more easily...

arqueete December 3 2012, 18:36:11 UTC

I noticed imdb is weird. trying to get krissy to clarify things based on the program since she was there.

i'm grouping concerts and productions because we don't treat them all that differently, do we?

you can put whatever you think is useful in the misc category, pages explaining refrences in the show and russian naming conventions i think are totally relevant to the wiki (not to bring up tvtropes constantly but they have a sevtion for "useful notes" pages which actually does, in fact, include a page on russian naming conventions.

ill think about bootlegs.

Okay, back to work. still working things out but heres the present state of the wiki: http://arqueete.com/chess/index.php (hopefully i'm remembering that right)

arqueete December 4 2012, 02:30:55 UTC

NOW THAT I'M HOME LET ME MAKE UP FOR MY IMPATIENCE IN ANSWERING WITH SOME LINKS TO SHOW WHAT I ACTUALLY MEAN.

I got the names backwards. The way I'm grouping pages like I laid out in the first post (Songs, Characters, etc.), those are groups, and categories are like tags. Regarding what you're saying about miscellanea, I'm not sure it really needs to be split up any further because categories can help a lot, and pages can be in as many categories as you want ( ... )

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