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boy little beast
Number of posts : 61 Age : 25 Location : La Mancha Registration date : 2012-10-19
| Subject: Elbowpedia Fri 19 Oct 2012, 23:04 | |
| Is there such a thing of an Elbow wiki? Like an Elbow encyclopedia type thing? No? Okay.A couple of days a go I started work on a project called 'Elbowpedia', which is an online encyclopedia based around Elbow. The site documents everything from their release from Island to Dead in the Boot. There needs to be a fine balance of how much info I provide and how much is user-submitted (which is what makes the site 'for Elbow fans, by Elbow fans'), so if anyone has any little nuggets of Elbow information that they'd like to send me then they can do so at REDACTED@REDACTED.com. You can just send me text if you'd like and I can format it to suit the Wiki layout and what not. Here's a screenshot of the site so far (bear in mind I only started a few days a go and there's still quite a bit that I need to do): Things I need to do: - Change the background to the black and white picture of fans at the M.E.N which is available in Elbow programmes and I believe it is also Jupp's Twitter background. However, I can't find this image anywhere, so if anyone has it I'd be very grateful.
- Add the band's pictures to the second column 'Elbow'.
- Hook the site up to hosting and a domain.
- Figure out some more Wiki lingo so that the pages can look nice and snazzy.
...and that's about it. I hope you don't mind about all of this, by the way. I feel like I'm barging in having only being a member for one day and asking you all to join my big project. But rest assured, I am as big an Elbow fan as you guys. Thanks for reading and I hope we can create some close connections with yourselves, Elbowfans and FuckYeahElbow. Cheers guys EDIT: The front page does look a bit too formal at the moment but once I get to know the formatting etc. then I can make it a better front page by adding pictures, Twitter feeds, videos, did you knows etc. | |
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negative8ball fallen angel
Number of posts : 24 Registration date : 2009-07-31
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Sun 21 Oct 2012, 13:27 | |
| Very nice.
Whether a fan of the band or not, They Might Be Giants have one of the most beautiful (and complete) fan-run Wikis I've ever seen (at tmbw.net) - take a look, you may get some ideas... and you may be able to crack "open" a couple pages and snatch code if interested...
Good luck! | |
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boy little beast
Number of posts : 61 Age : 25 Location : La Mancha Registration date : 2012-10-19
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Mon 22 Oct 2012, 20:13 | |
| Could I be so rude as to steal their code? It is a very nice looking Wiki. | |
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mrswoman leader of the free world
Number of posts : 1098 Location : Ooop North Registration date : 2008-06-21
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Tue 23 Oct 2012, 10:48 | |
| Keep going Boy/G, sounds great! Think the last time I looked, the black & white pic you want was on Pete's background. *checks* Yup, looky here: https://twitter.com/peteelbowRight click, 'save background as'. Bingo. Don't forget the elbowfans archive pages as mentioned to you on FB for info (I'm the EF admin ) | |
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boy little beast
Number of posts : 61 Age : 25 Location : La Mancha Registration date : 2012-10-19
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Wed 24 Oct 2012, 10:52 | |
| Ah yes, thank you MrsWoman I thought you might have been the admin, but I didn't say anything as I'm socially awkward enough without getting things wrong as well The discog and gigog is is great and it's a definite starting point for the site Thanks for your support | |
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MagicalTrevor administrator
Number of posts : 1822 Age : 53 Location : 5 years ago and 3000 miles away Registration date : 2008-04-01
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Wed 24 Oct 2012, 17:23 | |
| Looks good...are you planning on making the whole thing fan-editable?
This is the power of Wikis...they evolve and self-correct. | |
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boy little beast
Number of posts : 61 Age : 25 Location : La Mancha Registration date : 2012-10-19
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Wed 24 Oct 2012, 23:20 | |
| Yeah, that's what I meant by getting the balance of 'official' information and fan information, which - as you rightly said - is what makes Wikis great. | |
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MagicalTrevor administrator
Number of posts : 1822 Age : 53 Location : 5 years ago and 3000 miles away Registration date : 2008-04-01
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Wed 24 Oct 2012, 23:34 | |
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boy little beast
Number of posts : 61 Age : 25 Location : La Mancha Registration date : 2012-10-19
| Subject: Re: Elbowpedia Wed 24 Oct 2012, 23:54 | |
| Yes, MrsWoman referred me to that one. Oooh I'm all excited now | |
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