Music Blog Wiki
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I have heard once or twice from some of you that it would be cool to have a music blog wiki to show the ropes, and serve as a comprehensive directory. Well, I found myself with a little extra time today, and I made one. (HERE). If you have anything to contribute, by all means, do.
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I dig it. I will help out right now and get those blogs working with their links. Hope that is cool. I was just jamming to some tunes so this will give me something to do.
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Whatever you want to do with it. 'Tis the essence of the wiki!
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Done
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a brilliant idea :)
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Awesome! I was trying to make something similar, but I couldn't get it all to fit. I'm off to add it to my sidebar!
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It was my first button creation. I sorta just went for it. Is it correct for it to be a gif? I was seeing all sorts o different button types but that was the most common.
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if you are digging it, is there a way to put it on the wiki? so people can put it on their sites to link to the wiki
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i am a bit weak on my wiki editing skills
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I have no idea. Seems as good a format as any.
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i think the maiin reason for the gif is it wont decrease in quality by copying . not the case for a .jpg.
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I just put it on my sidebar. See it in action.
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To let you know, back when I started my blog, me and few others like Mike from Take Your Medicine had ourselves on a mp3 blog listing in wiki and it ended up getting pulled.
This is a bit different so hopefully the wiki fanatics won't mind it. -
I had no idea there were wiki fanatics. Eeenteresting.
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Jeff, could you put up something there for the button? I am freaked out to try it
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oops, I see. You're not on wiki itself. My bad.
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We've gone from about 400 to 1500 unique hits a day in the last three months so I tried to add a bit to your traffic section.
I was all about the PR until we hit 800, then it kind of snowballed until we stalled at our current rate. -
Thanks, Casey. I just added the "Support The Wiki" section where you can find the button. I hosted it on a photobucket account I made specifically for it, so feel free to direct link it.
If you know how to more effectively display the code, change it please. -
Just saw it. I must say this was an excellent idea. If enough bloggers add to it, it should become a pretty rocking resource.
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Rock! Thanks for putting my info up on that.
Is it wrong of me to feel the same excitement for this wiki as i did when this forum first started?
-Cameron Deyhle
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I don't think so. It is nice to get to know cool people, and if it can help people out, all the better.
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While everybody's here, what do you think the wiki lacks? Feel free to add pages yourselves.
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I think it should be good. Without Wikipedia and Music blogs, I wouldn't have much use for the internet so it's cool to see the two combined.
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Yeah, I spent a good hour and a half last night going through wikipedia.
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Yeah, i think its a great start.
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this is a really good idea!
i will look at it more tomorrow after work, but this is great! -
Very cool -- great idea!
The code isn't HTML exactly -- any suggestions for a handy online guide? -
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I just checked it for the first time today. Man, the blog directory has grown a lot. Good work, guys!
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I've added a bunch to it. I created a new page called The History of MP3 Blogs -- I'd love to see this contributed to, and for those who would remove the podcasting references, keep in mind that if you're using an RSS feed with enclosures (and you should be), your blog is technically a type of podcast.
MP3 blogs grew dramatically in popularity on roughly the same timeline that podcasting took off. Whether you realize it or not, MP3 blogs and podcasting share a great deal of the same technology and history. -
I also added an example blog page that I think would make a great template for other blogs to follow. A great deal of MP3 blog history lives in the blogs and contributors themselves, and I think it would make fascinating reading for people who are interested in the subject of MP3 blogs, in general. Particularly for blogs that carry some historical significance. It also doesn't hurt to categorize the blogs by music genre. I think that given the sheer number of MP3 blogs these days, it will help guide users to the blogs they might be most interested in.
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Great, Eric!
Perhaps with the blog pages, those could be linked to as well under the Blog Directory. Maybe indent one underneath the name of your blog and put it there? -
Awesome additions.
I haven't done any significant changes since yesterday but I did change the blog listings. Specifically the placement, your blog, The Rawking Refuses to Stop, and A Robot Cometh. If it's meant to be alphabetical, then the "a" and "the" are dropped.
Another quibble. I know it's your wiki, so I really don't want to sound unappreciative. Because really it's awesome, and you're great for getting it going. Buut... maybe we should drop the rampant "I" references in the headers? It's not really in keeping with the community nature of a wikipedia article (See Eric's articles for good examples of the no-author approach).
Anyhow, just a suggestion. I don't want to seem ungrateful or step on any toes. -
I can stop the I references, I really don't mind. (See, it's tough, three in one sentence!) Also, it is our wiki, I just created it. Let's keep this very communist.
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ha ha :)
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Anyway, if you want you can go through and edit out the "I" 's. I don't have time to do it now, but I will work on it later.
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Done and done. Should be easy to revert any of the pages that have poor edits by me, as I did it pretty quickly.
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Just checked it out, nice job! Do you (or anyone) know if all of those blog links were added by the bloggers themselves, or by one person?
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Click the history tab, and you can see who's changing what (at least by IP address).
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Ahhh. I see. Should we put some kind of a hit counter on the wiki, (I'd like to see the referring links), or is the "this page has been accessed..." sufficient??
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I created a managed directory of MP3 blogs based on the category system built in to wikimedia. It is much better than a free-form page, because we won't have any disputes about the order of blogs in the listing. The categories feature of Wikimedia also allows us to browse blogs by genre, assuming that the blog has a wiki page with associated genres. =)
To add a new blog, just go to:
http://musicblogwiki.elwiki.com/index.php/New_Blog
Where "New Blog" is the name of your blog. Click the edit tab, and fill in some text (Example). Remember to replace spaces with underscores. To add the page to the managed directory, just add this to the bottom of the page:
[[Category:MP3 Blogs]]
To associate the blog with genres, add category tags for each genre:
[[Category:Rock]] [[Category:Indie]] [[Category:Pop]]
Make sure that the genre is included in the master list by clicking on the category link from your blog page, and adding the Music Genres category to the genre page:
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The only problem I can see with that is that many of the people listed in the open one, weren't self-added, and thus wouldn't necessarily participate in the managed one. Could we add it as another page, and not so much as an old vs new?
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i think i agree with Jeff (DIY) on this one. And as far as effort goes, this new process takes more time to set up for yourself which will limit how many people do it. I would like to see both up there somehow seperately. Maybe have the new one under the main page as "Blogger Rolodex" or something?
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In theory, Eric's idea is better, but until the wiki is up and running, it would be better as both. I will do that now.
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yeah, i do like erics deal, i already started my page for it but think both is better than one.
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I think that the extra effort involved may actually keep noise levels down. It only takes a quick look at the MonkeyFilter Wiki to realize the folley of a free-for-all link-list format -- and that isn't even an open Wiki. You have to be a MonkeyFilter user to post to it.
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I think we should maintain both pages for as long as the free-for-all page is viable, but we should strongly encourage users to create wiki pages and take advantage of the managed category system, as it is more robust and viable as a long-term solution.
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Definately, Eric. If the open one becomes an issue, we can get rid of it, or edit out unnecessary blogs.
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Who chooses what is unnecessary and what isnt though? This is where i am unfamiliar with wiki law.
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