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Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:15 pm
by jb
Hello everyone,
There have been a few attempts to create Song Fight wikis, none of which really seem to have caught on and generated lots of participation from the community. You may or may not be aware, but there is a WIKI installed on songfight.net, which I've added a few articles to in order to get us started.
To encourage us all to mix wiki with forums, I've added a BBCODE that makes it easy to link to articles on the SongFight.net WIKI (songfight.net/wiki/). To link to the wiki:
- 1. Type the title of the Wiki article (NOTE: this is CaSe SeNsiTive!)
2. Select the title.
3. Click the "wiki" button in above the text box.
Like this:
Code: Select all
Check out the [wiki]Article Template[/wiki]s on the SF Wiki to learn how to add articles!
Which results in this:
Check out the s on the SF Wiki to learn how to add articles!
NOTE:When you post on the message board don't be afraid to link to articles that might not exist. Then, if you can, follow your own link and if the article isn't there, write it! We can all follow along behind you and correct/move/merge/clean up things as necessary. That's how wikis work!
You can also request that someone write an article by linking to one that doesn't exist. We can follow your link and, hopefully, provide what you need.
Enjoy,
JB
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:00 pm
by JonPorobil
I kind of expected Manhattan to jump down your throat about this sooner, but there's a wiki with a lot more relevant content at
http://sfbase.net/ right now.
I've always been of the opinion that if the Songfight community had a demonstrable need for a wiki, it wouldn't be so difficult to keep one maintained, but that's a whole other issue. It's DEFINITELY not going to make it easier if there's two competing wikis.
Someone (I think it was MG) wrote scripts to import data from the Archive into the one on sfbase.net, data which I believe are mostly absent from the one on songfight.net. Could the content from the two wikis be merged, perhaps? Also, the one on songfight.net would be MUCH more useful if it had a better set of "Getting started" links. Right now, the only links from that front page to the rest of the content are the "End to end recording guide" (mostly unpopulated) and the "Random page" link.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:01 pm
by JonPorobil
Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but the wiki hosted on songfight.net is still subject to a fairly significant amount of spam. Example:
http://songfight.net/wiki/index.php?tit ... F%E6%9C%9F
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 6:11 am
by jb
Everybody talks about the weather, Jon.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:59 pm
by fluffy
Eh, the sfbase.net wiki is neglected and spam-ful now too.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:23 pm
by Lunkhead
Am I crazy or prejudiced to think that any widely used PHP wiki (or bulletin board for that matter) is going to be a pretty big target for spammers...? Maybe a different solution than MediaWiki might be less likely to get spam, something that has a smaller userbase and therefore is less valuable as a spam target?
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:21 am
by Billy's Little Trip
Lunkhead wrote:Am I crazy or prejudiced to think that any widely used PHP wiki (or bulletin board for that matter) is going to be a pretty big target for spammers...? Maybe a different solution than MediaWiki might be less likely to get spam, something that has a smaller userbase and therefore is less valuable as a spam target?
Sure, until it gets popular. You can run Lunk, but eventually you have to stand up and fight. This isn't Song Run! :)
Song Fight is awesome on it's own. This place is revenue worthy. It has internet value. That's why there is so much spam. Spin is no dummy, this place is a goldmine. Sammy Kablam hooked in for the same reason. Those are just a couple that I can think of. I've been suggesting it for years, but why does this place resist sponsors? It's not a sell out. It can be silly bumper stickers or t-shirts. It can be ways for bands to exceed with engineering and production. I can't count how many times this place has had members ask to send their tracks to get mixed by an inspiring engineer. MG does this and he's damn good (but you didn't hear that from me). The mighty Song Fight is a goldmine and can teach and help MANY. Anyway, I love this place as is. But....the times, they are a changin'.
Long Live The Mighty Song Fight!
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:32 am
by Billy's Little Trip
I'll just leave this to the mods...at this point.
....by the way. I shall not post in here ever a-gain.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:24 am
by Lunkhead
Billy's Little Trip wrote:I'll just leave this to the mods...at this point.
....by the way. I shall not post in here ever a-gain.
I cleaned up your quintuple post mess, in case you were wondering.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:17 am
by jb
Billy's Little Trip wrote:Lunkhead wrote:Am I crazy or prejudiced to think that any widely used PHP wiki (or bulletin board for that matter) is going to be a pretty big target for spammers...? Maybe a different solution than MediaWiki might be less likely to get spam, something that has a smaller userbase and therefore is less valuable as a spam target?
Sure, until it gets popular. You can run Lunk, but eventually you have to stand up and fight. This isn't Song Run!
Song Fight is awesome on it's own. This place is revenue worthy. It has internet value. That's why there is so much spam. Spin is no dummy, this place is a goldmine. Sammy Kablam hooked in for the same reason. Those are just a couple that I can think of. I've been suggesting it for years, but why does this place resist sponsors? It's not a sell out. It can be silly bumper stickers or t-shirts. It can be ways for bands to exceed with engineering and production. I can't count how many times this place has had members ask to send their tracks to get mixed by an inspiring engineer. MG does this and he's damn good (but you didn't hear that from me). The mighty Song Fight is a goldmine and can teach and help MANY. Anyway, I love this place as is. But....the times, they are a changin'.
Long Live The Mighty Song Fight!
Why do we need sponsors? What would the community get out of it?
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:43 pm
by Spud
^^^ We have a sponsor ^^^
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:14 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
jb wrote:Billy's Little Trip wrote:Lunkhead wrote:Am I crazy or prejudiced to think that any widely used PHP wiki (or bulletin board for that matter) is going to be a pretty big target for spammers...? Maybe a different solution than MediaWiki might be less likely to get spam, something that has a smaller userbase and therefore is less valuable as a spam target?
Sure, until it gets popular. You can run Lunk, but eventually you have to stand up and fight. This isn't Song Run! :)
Song Fight is awesome on it's own. This place is revenue worthy. It has internet value. That's why there is so much spam. Spin is no dummy, this place is a goldmine. Sammy Kablam hooked in for the same reason. Those are just a couple that I can think of. I've been suggesting it for years, but why does this place resist sponsors? It's not a sell out. It can be silly bumper stickers or t-shirts. It can be ways for bands to exceed with engineering and production. I can't count how many times this place has had members ask to send their tracks to get mixed by an inspiring engineer. MG does this and he's damn good (but you didn't hear that from me). The mighty Song Fight is a goldmine and can teach and help MANY. Anyway, I love this place as is. But....the times, they are a changin'.
Long Live The Mighty Song Fight!
Why do we need sponsors? What would the community get out of it?
Sell some ad space and it goes to you the owner. Then you can decide how it would benefit the community. Free smart phone apps? Some kind of compensation for the admin/mods? Song Fight Live trips? Charity? Just spit balling here.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:15 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
Lunkhead wrote:Billy's Little Trip wrote:I'll just leave this to the mods...at this point.
....by the way. I shall not post in here ever a-gain.
I cleaned up your quintuple post mess, in case you were wondering.
Oh yeah, thanks Lunk. :)
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:04 am
by Spud
and I cleaned up your non-BBCode-enabled quotes. SPUD
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:08 am
by jast
Might wanna allow BBCode for regular users in this forum so that no further clean-ups like that are necessary. Similarly, allow folks to delete posts (which only means that they can delete their own post if it's the newest post in the thread) and no manual intervention won't be necessary for that, either. While you're at it, feel free to enable smilies, too. Not that it matters.
Re: Easily Link to Song Fight Wiki Articles
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:28 am
by Billy's Little Trip
@ Spud. Thank you, fine sir.
@ jast. It might be easier just to ban me from this thread. I seem to be the only tard exposing the weaknesses of this poorly written code. And who needs smileys? Here's a spider. /X\(..)/X\