Date:         Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:55:29 -0400
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Subject:      Re: discographies
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David Lennick wrote:
> Wikipedia has as much credibility as a ouija board..ANYONE can make corrections.
> I never use that one.

Don't confuse Wikipedia's problematic implementation with the underlying 
wiki principle. Wikis can be password-protected, require logins and 
auditing, and so forth.

But a wiki is probably the wrong model in any case. Wikis are designed 
for collaborative editing of unstructured hypertext, while a discography 
is in essence a database with a bit of free-text annotation.

It has been suggested that what is needed for discography is much like 
the IMDB, where all submissions are subject to review before acceptance.

Regards,
Eric Grunin
www.grunin.com/eroica