Oren Goldberg, who books shows at the Turf Club and has a local music show on KFAI, has released a new Twin Cities Music Event Wiki. Wikis are basically pages that anyone can edit, so the utopian goal is a calendar that is updated in real time by members of the music community. This should be good news now that TCshowslist appears officially defunct. Other local groups experimenting with wikis include the Minnesota Public Knowledge Base (an activism organization) and E-democracy (a non-profit/non-partisan issues site). There are a few infamous cases of wiki problems (such as the L.A. Times debacle), but the user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia is generally viewed as a massive success.
Wiki This, Wiki That
Aug 16 2005 — 2:00am
11 Reader Comments
2:34 pm
I’ve thought about turning the calendar on this site into a wiki — or using a user-contribution tool like Upcoming.org — but I’m sorta worried about, um, editorial integrity.
2:45 pm
editorial integrity – why the FUCK would you worry about that?
2:52 pm
Rex, Rachael used a swear- she has to put a quarter in the jar!
3:01 pm
Over at MNteractive we’re experimenting with a wiki as directory of the design community.
8:22 pm
Aha! Remember when y’all first starting this thing up and I sent an email “where’s the wiki?” (note new T-shirt suggestion)
8:26 pm
you’ve all heard the vampire watermelon story?
10:16 am
I hadn’t clicked on the shows list for a couple months so this is sad news to me. It was always the handiest for planning a busy week, it’s just I’ve been to busy to plan around shows. Anyone know if Scott’s okay?
10:39 am
I’d like to start using dodgeball.com more, but there’s only 100 or so people signed up in the MPLS area.
12:44 pm
Scott Pakudaitis, of tcshowslist.com (NOT TCShowlist.com by the way), just emailed me, and it looks like the web site’s not going anywhere:
“Ive been preoccupied with the Fringe Festival and will be updating the calendar this week. I saw 50 Fringe shows and photographed 47 of them. When I got home each night, I had hundreds of shots to sort.”
12:54 pm
Thanks for the update, Pete. I jumped to conclusions because the site seemed behind the last few months and it completely stopped working yesterday.
7:35 pm
Scott is also the editor of the 89.3 music calendar, so he’s a very busy boy.