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Open Source Discography
miryclay:
Hey collectors and curious fans.
It seems that the ever-expanding world of music trading, sharing, collecting and downloading is getting harder to manage.
Instead of having the burden rest upon the shoulders of only a few dedicated and tired editors maybe fans could create an open source project where all fans can edit. Some sort of wiki. Possibly only a few editors could have a password to manage sensitive information.
Though I know many might not want to give up all of their hard work (and justifiably so) in the end it would be a far superior page.
MiryClay
jw:
That exists to a degree here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_discography
But it's not as simple to navigate like U2Wanderer. The information is more spread out and if you don't know what you're looking for, it's harder to find it.
Carl:
We're going to be doing something in the middle - we'll let people submit entries that will be approved by "staff" (e.g. who works on the site now and a few others) within a content management system.
The problem with a truly open system would be people adding in bootlegs and then having them be removed etc, vs the amount of new releases that actually come out - a more moderated solution would probably work best while still allowing content to contributed.
miryclay:
It just makes sense because you have all of this content that needs to be updated and many willing end-users.
Carl:
As someone pointed out, there is a wikipedia page on U2 already - people here can update it (or copy information from the site that is missing there).
A structured environment has some payoffs (think "the Apple experience" though it's far from perfect), we agree that we're lazy and don't really bother with content with everything going on in our lives, and we're going to make a solution where there is still some oversight and controlled navigation etc but people can contribute content to make things work faster.
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