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I would like to create a piano wiki for Piano World.

Already purchased the domain (wikipiano.com) and had a friend set up the software. But... I don't know how to use it

I wanted to seed it with categories and topics, creating a place we all could use to build a permanent record of piano-related information.

Think wikipedia, but for the piano.

Anyway, it lives here...
http://www.wikipiano.com/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages

If anyone knows how to use the software, or wants to try helping us get is set up, I'd really like to see it work.

Hi Frank,
This is really ambitious on your behalf. Are you aware that editing is open ended, meaning anyone can add/modify/delete published web pages? If you're comfortable with this, here's a URL for a free tutorial :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

Regards,
Roger

Frank,

I knew how to wiki, but the first time I actually tried to do it, I threw my back out.

Now I stick to waltzes and foxtrots.

Seriously, I don't know much about it except for what comes up when I google a term that is in wikipedia. Im happy to help, if I can.

Note to Rick - I think you might be trying the Fred Astaire advanced version of wiki...

previously, the only wiki I knew was WikiWachi in Florida... the place with mermaids

Ok, I went and registered. I'm not sure how to help from there. Is there any place to have a real time "chat" session?

Frank

I added some shell content for you, probably enough to get started. On Main Page just set up some examples of Brands... Each brand can have its own title and then individuals can edit at their discretion. Using the plus sign new categories can be created. Should be interesting to see if anyone can figure out a good way to organize.

I think we should set up sub categories or should we set up main categories such as digital, acoustic, and divide acoustic into upright and grand?

Can we add categories for accessories? Like benches, stands, monitors, mixers, software, books, etc?

Is there a place we could chat, IM or whatever to work out the categories and ideas? It looks interesting.

I just added the umlaut over the "o" in Bösendorfer!

That code is pretty wide open. I didn't even have to have an account!

I guess that is the idea.

I wish we could add photos of pianos, perhaps from the manufacturer's website. But would that violate copyright issues? Perhaps just links to manufacturers? But then, that is sort of boring!

Shammy

I am no expert with Wikipedia...my perspective has been that it is an encylopedia...so I don't know if you can nest categories or if one can use "Pages" to achieve sub categories. I have no idea if there is a chat or IM function either.

I am pretty sure that the sysadmin can set it up such that not everyone can just edit content but users could submit for approval. On the otherhand their must be some "roll back" function if editing is near realtime.

so... If you can't wiki... are you wiki-challenged? and if you CAN wiki... are you a wiki-wizard?

Until something more happens here, we are all just Wiki-'watchees'.

Thanks everyone, we'll get the hang of this yet.

http://www.wikipiano.com/mediawiki/index.php/Talk:Main_Page

I do, fortunately, know how to Wiki. On the main page, http://www.wikipiano.com/mediawiki/index.php it links to the new Piano brands page. Please go there and submit information, I've attempted to follow a simple theme throughout.

Excellent! Thanks Timothy (In Cyprus).

If you have the time, and don't mind, maybe you could teach us (me) how you did this?

I have a list of Topics and Sub Topics I'd like to seed the Piano Wiki with, but couldn't figure out from the instructions how to do it.

Again, thanks much.

Best,

- Frank B.

Okay, it's really quite simple. On the page you want to link from you type the title of the page you want, then stick '[[' on the left of it, and ']]' on the right of it, then save the page. Then click on the link which will have appeared, and it will give you the option of making a new page.

Timothy

That would be censorship and would undermine the very idea of Wikiwhatever.

Censorship creates a bias of whoever censors. Uncensored edits create balanced content.

It is like Communism vs. Captialism, or a regulated market vs. a free market.

Timothy, I've been to your island and had a wonderful time. Actually, I'm just now listening to a Concert for 10 Pianos & Orchestra, conducted by Maciej Zoltowski, with the Cyprus State Orchestra. What an amazing sound 10 pianos can produce!

Thank you for assisting with this endeavor from so far away. Isn't the Internet great?

The island's lovely. Didn't know we had 10 concert grand pianos on the island, though, but there we are. Our local Steinway D is in terrible state--they brought it and have given so little care to it it's shameful. In Lefkosia they carry concert grands around at a 40 degree angle on forklift trucks underneath--it looks so dangerously wobbly that I can never bear to look.

The internet's wonderful for things like this--I co-administrate two medium-sized bulliten boards in the USA, our business rents three servers in London which are all administrated locally. I love broadband.

Timothy

I added a minimal set of Wiki editing instructions available from the main page. It will suffice for most needs.

Thanks CMS, very helpful.

Must read them myself:-)

- Frank B.

Interesting Place, Wicki.....

I created an account....

What do I do with it?

Larry