It was mentioned on the Source, we should create an article about it. But where the heck would we put it? Tjernobyl 19:05, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
A piece of local musical history is the centre of attention at the DaVinci Centre for Friday night. An accordion built nearly a century ago at the Old Baldovin Accordion Factory on Simpson Street may be on its way to the Canadian Museum of Civilization near Ottawa. A representative from the museum was in the city Friday to begin examining the accordion and its history. It's believed the instrument may be a rare piece of history representative of the first wave of Italian immigrants to the region.
--Destructo 21:04, 27 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)
- 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.
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)
Here's a way to do it for recording:
Here's a way to do it for live shows:
These categories should be cool -along with genres and decades active.
Destructo 00:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
* Add Category:People to all people pages (use Biographies)
* Add Category:Bands to all band pages (use More Bands)
* Add Category:Venue to all venue pages (use Venues)
* Cleanup uncategorized pages.
We should implement backlinks and also related links. Related for Speedway: Compassion Dies, Jarek, Camden, Micro, Apollo etc. etc. "What Links Here" is cool but it would be nice to have that as a toolbar in the footer.--Destructo 17:47, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I liked the feature on the old wiki; it'd be good here too... Are there any MediaWiki extensions that can do it? -- Tjernobyl 20:40, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
I think it would be cool to have info fields for each band like "Dates Active: " "Genres: " etc. Similar to Wikipedia band pages. Much more informative for the viewer. And we could then use this data to create things like charts that show the timelines for various genres of thunder bay bands. --Destructo 02:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
One of the backlink extensions needs templates to be useful, as well. I'd also recommend adding a "related bands" section as well. You can see how templates are put together at wikipedia, but the templates themselves are too transcluded for us to use directly --Tjernobyl 15:49, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I certainly like the second structure better. There's gotta be a way to fix that in localsettings.php.
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL is the manual page to make the change. If you need more access to the server, let me know ... htaccess might need to be altered if you use the recommended guide: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_title_--_no_root_access .--Destructo 16:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
I made the change in localsettings.php. The change to htaccess was already done (presumably by you!). I also changed the password for the server, you can contact me if you need the new one (tjernobyl only!). The change made to localsettings was:
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; # Virtual path (left part of first rewrite rule). MUST be DIFFERENT from the path above! $wgUsePathInfo = true;--Destructo 15:01, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
There are a couple bands I haven't heard of on http://baycore.net/mp3/download_mp3.php... Thus I create the Category:Work In Progress page Bands For Which Our Only Evidence Is MP3s
Bands tend to be capitalized in some canonical way. However, especially in cases with band names that contain articles such as "and the", they're not always consistent. We can either create a standard way of doing this, or find a way to make MediaWiki case insensitive.
I've created a lot of redirects between "$BANDNAME" and "The $BANDNAME"... It's not always clear whether "The" is part of the band name or not. Is there a way or an extension that can automatically redirect from one to the other? I could make some redirects manually, but a global thing would be the way to go.