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* I've created a [http://www.bandwiki.ca/wiki/Category:Notable_Bands Notable Bands] category, we can discuss over there which bands deserve to be there.  [[User:Tjernobyl|Tjernobyl]] 21:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 
* I've created a [http://www.bandwiki.ca/wiki/Category:Notable_Bands Notable Bands] category, we can discuss over there which bands deserve to be there.  [[User:Tjernobyl|Tjernobyl]] 21:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
  
** I think simplifying the categories would be the best method.  If we just have a couple of main categories:
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** I think simplifying the categories would be the best method.  If we just have a couple of main categories -GENRE and -DATES ACTIVE. 
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We already have punk, metal and other assorted genres.  We also have some dates active (post 1990, pre-1990)  If we expand these into categories and subcategories, it seems it would make it easy to sort and people would be able to narrow down their search very easily.  I also like the idea of having different categories based on "notoriety" (is there a better word for that?) so we can narrow down to the bands that have played a ton of shows and got more exposure than a band that was a one-person one-song demo from 1990. [[User:Destructo|Destructo]] 19:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 
We already have punk, metal and other assorted genres.  We also have some dates active (post 1990, pre-1990)  If we expand these into categories and subcategories, it seems it would make it easy to sort and people would be able to narrow down their search very easily.  I also like the idea of having different categories based on "notoriety" (is there a better word for that?) so we can narrow down to the bands that have played a ton of shows and got more exposure than a band that was a one-person one-song demo from 1990. [[User:Destructo|Destructo]] 19:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
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Why don't line breaks work properly?[[User:Destructo|Destructo]] 19:35, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
  
 
== Page cleanups ==
 
== Page cleanups ==

Revision as of 19:35, 25 October 2008

Mediawiki Upgrades

  • Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.13
    • I'll do this weekend Destructo 17:02, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Uploading and Images

  • Upload images

-- Does anyone wanna do this for me? It's just a matter of clicking 'upload' and select file like 150 times.

Bandwiki To Do List

  • I just added a ton of headings to this page to organize it. Destructo 20:44, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Consider adding all new to do items with double-dash heading to organize this page. If everyone adds their text at the ends of sections, and new sections at the end of page, we can easily keep track of the to do's and also keep the discussions in a orderly timeline from oldest to newest. Destructo 20:44, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thunder Bay Section

  • I'd like to see the Thunder Bay page filled out more and a basic history of the Thunder Bay music scene. I'd also like to see some scans of Chronicle Journal articles and links / copy-and-pastes from the Argus, the Source and any other mags that give Thunder bay exposure (exclaim?) - Destructo
  • I can write a program that archives news, if we wanna commit to making use of it. Tjernobyl 03:28, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I think it would be awesome to archive thunder bay music news on this site similar to the argus rad kids article.Destructo 16:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


Timezone

  • Change time zone to EST ... I actually wrote this at 11:06am Destructo 15:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Old Bandwiki Redirect

Band Categories

  • Consider creating a "prominent bands" list of bands that regularly played live and/or released a proper cd. Destructo 17:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Maybe a few catigory of bands? (Prominent Bands, Past Bands, New Bands)? The_George 14 October 2008
    • The following band-related categories exist. Feel free to suggest more, or how we can improve the ontology: Tjernobyl 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
   ** 00s Bands (27 members)
   ** 60s Bands (3 members)
   ** 70s Bands (7 members)
   ** 80s Bands (6 members)
   ** 90s Bands (11 members)
   ** Bands (167 members)
   ** Bands with horn players (1 member)
   ** Bands with keyboards (1 member)
   ** Black Metal Bands (3 members)
   ** Celtic Bands (1 member)
   ** Cover Bands (6 members)
   ** Doom Metal Bands (1 member)
   ** Grindcore Bands (3 members)
   ** Hip-Hop Groups (3 members)
   ** Industrial Bands (5 members)
   ** Jazz Bands (1 member)
   ** Metal Bands (8 members)
   ** Neoclassical Bands (1 member)
   ** Pop-Punk Bands (2 members)
   ** Punk Bands (8 members)

I'd like to see a category for "bands that have played more than 2 legitimate shows" Destructo 20:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

  • Hard to do. The standard I've always used for being worthy of inclusion was "has produced a recording or played a show." If the band contained a really significant person and it was important to their development, I've counted that as notable as well. Other than the 150-odd bands listed on tbshows, we have very sparse data on how many shows have been played. We could do Bands that have played more than 10 shows, but then we can't prove that for even seminal bands like The Negatives. If we can come up with a good criteria, we could do it. Tjernobyl 20:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
    • We should make a page for criteria and/or category criteria to list some basic category rules and we can then get a better feel for how the categories can be best utilized.
  • Is there a way that we can organize the top categories better and more streamlined. It should fork out from 'Thunder Bay Bands' to 'list of genres' and 'list of dates active' and 'list of musicians' and 'list of instrumentation' (etc?). Hopefully, you would then fork out more from each of those sub categories. It would be also cool to be able to mix and mingle categories so you could, for example, search for "Grindcore bands that were active in the 90s that had a keyboard player and played at crocks with some guy named john doe who was the singer.' That shouldn't be that hard with proper categories? I should take a look at the mediawiki documentation and learn more about category sorting options. Destructo 20:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

- The first step in this is getting them all categorized; that provides the raw data. Once we have that, there's gotta be a way to search.

  • I've created a Notable Bands category, we can discuss over there which bands deserve to be there. Tjernobyl 21:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
    • I think simplifying the categories would be the best method. If we just have a couple of main categories -GENRE and -DATES ACTIVE.

We already have punk, metal and other assorted genres. We also have some dates active (post 1990, pre-1990) If we expand these into categories and subcategories, it seems it would make it easy to sort and people would be able to narrow down their search very easily. I also like the idea of having different categories based on "notoriety" (is there a better word for that?) so we can narrow down to the bands that have played a ton of shows and got more exposure than a band that was a one-person one-song demo from 1990. Destructo 19:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Line Breaks

Why don't line breaks work properly?Destructo 19:35, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Page cleanups

  • Remove people that have only been in one band, if their page doesn't contain any information that isn't on the band page

Category cleanups

  • Add to all venue pages (use Venues)

Finished Items

Finished Bandwiki to-do items