Sisters Wiki

07 Jul 2005, 09:37

Sisters wiki dot org is here

http://www.sisterswiki.org

Anyone is welcome to join in

*Edited for the current address.

07 Jul 2005, 15:47

I've added a few pages but not much content. Anyone can edit any page; don't worry if you've not used a Wiki before, it's fairly self-explanatory! And if you f*ck anything up, no problem, someone will probably come along and correct anything.

aims · 07 Jul 2005, 16:30

Would you be averse to us separating the various sub-sections onto different pages? Since it's a dedicated wiki you can afford to have pages like "Lineup" and "Singles", unlike in a universal one such as Wikipedia where they'd all clash.

07 Jul 2005, 16:34

Do what you like

That's a good idea I think actually

aims · 07 Jul 2005, 17:41

Ok, I've cleaned up the main page (removing extraneous wikipedia links and moving things to their own page) and done an almost comprehensive song list. That will take lots of work to accurately complete, but the framework is there.

lazarus corporation · 07 Jul 2005, 17:57

these line breaks are reappearing faster than I can take them out - any chance of password-protecting the Wiki with an openly known password - just to stop bots.

Dark · 07 Jul 2005, 18:00

I've made an SSV page, and am in the process of making a page for each of the SSV songs.

The summer holidays have begun as of two hours ago, so here's something to do for a couple of months.

((I won't be getting bored. I once wrote a 12-page essay on the Sisters, about each song, and wanted to redo it with info on the bootlegs too, which probably would have upped it to about 20 pages.

))

aims · 07 Jul 2005, 18:20

Dark, you wouldn't mind adding those songs to the "complete" list, would ya?

nick the stripper · 07 Jul 2005, 18:35

I've added the track lists to all the singles except I Was Wrong, which seems to be missing from the list.

Dark · 07 Jul 2005, 19:02

Motz wrote:Dark, you wouldn't mind adding those songs to the "complete" list, would ya?

When I'm done writing something on each song, I'll go through the lot.

Since I don't believe some of the lyrics are correct, I'm listening to them again. I can't get the last line of the second verse of Drugsar.
I know most are "We drive a long black car", but the first sounds more like "We heist along the bus" or some such.

I only have a low-bitrate version though, I'll look for a better one later.

lazarus corporation · 07 Jul 2005, 23:55

I had nothing better to do this evening, so I added some stuff, namely pages on:

Merciful Release (inc a table of products)
Gary Marx
March Violets
Tom Ashton

and scattered some additional details throughout

Dark · 08 Jul 2005, 08:07

Right. I've written out a page for EVERY SSV song, and written up some information about Ben Gunn.

I'm now starting on GD, so wish me luck.

lazarus corporation · 08 Jul 2005, 08:12

The other thing I found out was that the random line breaks were not being caused by a bot, but by a fault in the wiki script.

They are generated if you use one of the 'edit' tags which run down the side of an article rather than clicking 'Edit Page' at the top of the page.

To avoid them, simply use the 'Edit Page' button at the top of the page. I've put a note to this effect on the front page of the wiki.

nick the stripper · 08 Jul 2005, 09:07

Would it be a good idea to have a section that lists all the bootlegs?

08 Jul 2005, 09:11

nick the stripper wrote:Would it be a good idea to have a section that lists all the bootlegs?

Yes

08 Jul 2005, 09:13

We're already the second-biggest (in terms of number of pages) wiki on http://wikihost.org

hallucienate · 08 Jul 2005, 09:26

markfiend wrote:We're already the second-biggest (in terms of number of pages) wiki on http://wikihost.org

Are these guys to be trusted? If it's not to late I can probably offer free hosting on a LAMP server.

08 Jul 2005, 09:59

*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)

culprit · 08 Jul 2005, 10:02

markfiend wrote:*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)

...I'm not reading this thread anymore, my brain hurts

hallucienate · 08 Jul 2005, 10:09

markfiend wrote:*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)

Well if no one has any objections I can have a go at installing the open wiki software and we can take it from there. Maybe one of you designers could make it look pretty and stuff? If there is enough interest I can register a domain for it too.

lazarus corporation · 08 Jul 2005, 10:12

hallucienate wrote:
markfiend wrote:*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)
Well if no one has any objections I can have a go at installing the open wiki software and we can take it from there. Maybe one of you designers could make it look pretty and stuff? If there is enough interest I can register a domain for it too.

Sounds like a good idea to me

That would also allow us to host some image files, which would make a vast improvement to the whole wiki.

hallucienate · 08 Jul 2005, 10:20

lazarus corporation wrote:
hallucienate wrote:
markfiend wrote:*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)
Well if no one has any objections I can have a go at installing the open wiki software and we can take it from there. Maybe one of you designers could make it look pretty and stuff? If there is enough interest I can register a domain for it too.
Sounds like a good idea to me

That would also allow us to host some image files, which would make a vast improvement to the whole wiki.

OK. Any objections then?

08 Jul 2005, 10:20

Cool.

Apparently only the owner of a wiki can download the database; that's me... but I'll PM the login details to you Lucien so that when you've got the hosting set up you can just download the database for yourself.

Once we've done that we can just abandon the old one I guess.

08 Jul 2005, 10:21

lazarus corporation wrote:
hallucienate wrote:
markfiend wrote:*shrug* I was wondering about that to be honest. I've just d/led the .tar.gz of the database (904K) and I was considering shifting it to a host that's more like the "proper" wiki; (this one has non-standard wiki-markup which is p*ssing me off)
Well if no one has any objections I can have a go at installing the open wiki software and we can take it from there. Maybe one of you designers could make it look pretty and stuff? If there is enough interest I can register a domain for it too.
Sounds like a good idea to me

That would also allow us to host some image files, which would make a vast improvement to the whole wiki.

have you tried wikipedia's free software? dont know much about the whole topic but i gather its quite good.

or is that the one you mean?

08 Jul 2005, 10:22

when its up i'll see about adding some kind of permanent link to it...

can we get laz corp or someone good with the crayons and the old angle brackets to tart it up too, so it looks nice?