Was just wondering this guys. This idea struck me last night while I was sleeping.
As we all know, Singapore's music scene is quite large as we know it. Most of us are clustered here, pretty much familiar with each other, getting each other's jokes and all this.
However, we have to consider - what about those bands that are not in SOFT or those who want to step into the music scene? Or perhaps those who are new to SOFT? Due to the amount of data here, it is hard to be able to decipher everything, and a particular person/SOFTie may only want specific information
My proposal is that those of us that are more well versed in computers should explore the option of creating a Wiki that caters to the entire music scene, allowing new people to easily enter the scene or allow anyone find out information about the scene itself.
Also, this will allow us to be able to update anything about the scene regulary from time to time. If you get what I mean, look at the difference between some of the popular bands in America and those like Lunarin and Electrico on Wikipedia. You'll see the vast difference
My last point is that this will promote the local scene and allow us to gain more recognition
Well? I welcome all suggestions or CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms on why this will or will not work. Hopefully this will become a reality in the future
Cheerios!
Michael
P.S: Any rubbish criticisms will not be tolerated, so don't try it! ;3
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Last edited by theliverevolution; 12-11-08 at 07:09 PM.
Hey. Thanks for the encouragement guys, but any suggestions how we should go about doing it? Daryl has offered to supply the info (i'm expecting everyone to input their own info!) we need, but how should we go about doing it now?
My suggestion http://wiki.soft.com.sg/ will work, but Mr James has to keep a separate database for that as everyone has to sign up for an account. Furthermore, he has to lock down the edits to users only or else the point is moot.
A "wiki" involves an engine (eg. MediaWiki), web scripting (eg. PHP) which is the language the engine is based upon, and a database (eg. MySQL). Together, they form the "wiki software" which is a server application running on a server (eg. Apache). Engines like MediaWiki normally come prebundled with a few things and all the user has to do is deploy it on a server machine. Mr James has already done all that, but I think it's due to the lack of interest that he didn't follow up on the error mentioned earlier on.
As for editing Wiki pages, it's a no-brainer. Modern engines like MediaWiki provide you with a WYSIWYG editor (like e-mail) so you don't need to learn the "markup language" (which is a no-brainer also).
Coming from the Open-source Software community, I deal with them all the time so I don't mind helping if help is needed.
Perhaps we should take over the Wiki project from James? Then he can focus more on his life (well, he IS an adult and may not have as much free time as the younger ones) and just sit back to let us run the Wiki instead. Allow it to be done something like how Wikipedia is done now, where everyone can edit it and write their stuff. However, registering optional unless you want unlimited allowance to edit the pages.
Okay... Let's start adding our info on it then. Think we can put all sorts of info on it, not just bands. Perhaps on the various places to go buy gear, places to jam, various gear that we love to use... Hmm... anything else we can add?
I'm starting to edit the main page, but I know nuts about Wiki language (still trying to figure it out how to do all the fancy stuff) so I really need everyone's help here!! Thanks!
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Last edited by theliverevolution; 13-11-08 at 09:43 AM.
A Wiki for SG Music Scene?
