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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: Will on January 08, 2007, 06:48:46 pm
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Today, we've launched NESSAwiki (http://nessaholics.com/wiki), a Wiki devoted to Vanessa Carlton. Those of you who are unfamiliar with wikis might want to check out the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) on them. Please let us know if you run into any problems with the site. Happy editing!
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This a good idea! Thanks for putting it up.. but how do I 'create an account' I click the login button, but have no option to create from that.
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Oops. There was a configuration error. It should work now
http://nessaholics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page
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ya it's workin now thanks
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exactly ...now i'm able to sign in ...so what exactly are we supposed to do...create some sort of bio for her??
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Whoopity whoop!
Nice idea!
I just signed up 8)
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great, now I just have to remember to check it. :lol:
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You could start a bio. You could start articles on various albums, shows, and songs. Use your imagination. :)
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I'd like to contribute but I'm not sure what to put there as of yet.
I need to read the help topic because it seems like there's a lot of code involved while making the pages.
Am I right Will?
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There is plenty of code you can use, but there are only two things you need to know.
Linking. To make a link to "Page", you type [[Page]]. If you want to link to "Page" with the linktext "boo", type [[Page|boo]]. External links are made by typing [http://example.com Link] where "Link" is the linktext.
Headings. You can make these by typing == Heading == for a second level heading and === Heading === for a third level heading, and so on and so forth.
Otherwise, just type ahead. Anyway... gotta get to class. Sorry for the rushed reply.
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Are there any articles posted there at the moment?
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I started articles about Be Not Nobody, Harmonium, and Heroes and Thieves, but now I think I may have messed up because you didn't post what we need to label things as. Like if it's song should we put "[song]" in it or if it's a album should we put "[album]" in it? That sort of thing.
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I started articles about Be Not Nobody, Harmonium, and Heroes and Thieves, but now I think I may have messed up because you didn't post what we need to label things as. Like if it's song should we put "[song]" in it or if it's a album should we put "[album]" in it? That sort of thing.
Well, if there are two or more names that refer to different things, we should use labels. Like, Rinse (song) and Rinse (album). Harmonium is just an album, so we don't need a label for that.
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I started articles about Be Not Nobody, Harmonium, and Heroes and Thieves, but now I think I may have messed up because you didn't post what we need to label things as. Like if it's song should we put "[song]" in it or if it's a album should we put "[album]" in it? That sort of thing.
Well, if there are two or more names that refer to different things, we should use labels. Like, Rinse (song) and Rinse (album). Harmonium is just an album, so we don't need a label for that.
Okay.
Then delete my article I started about Heroes and Thieves since it's both an album and a song.
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well I tried adding a photo... which is quite a process I must say. But it looks like you don't allow that. s'on the be not nobody page. not sure whether wiki commons will delete the file or not... when i uploaded it I cited Fair Use Rationale:
-it is a low resolution copy of a CD album cover;
-it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD album in any way;
-copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD
hopefully they wont delete it as a duplicate of wiki en.. not sure i guess we'll see.
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The photo upload thing will be fixed soon. There are tons of things that have been overlooked. Mediawiki is complicated.
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Mediawiki is complicated.
seriously... it seems so simple and easy to use at first, and then you go try and do something remotely advanced, geez. I cant imagine setting one up :?
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Well, you can thank Katia for setting the whole shebang up, even though she's insanely busy at the moment.
Anyway, the issue with file upload is that NESSAholics.com has somewhat limited bandwidth and storage. We're working on measures to discourage people from using the wiki as their personal photo dump. Once we get those issues resolved, we'll turn on file uploads.
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I already uploaded the file, I think... it's at the Wiki Commons, I forget the web address. But you can see the photo I uploaded if you search there for Be Not Nobody. But maybe what you're saying is that it still takes up space for the nessa wiki itself.
Oh and THANK YOU KATIA! :D
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Ok,
As Will mentioned we did some work on the wiki this weekend and have in place some apache rules to not allow hotlinking and scripts in place to monitor the directory sizes so nothing too crazy happens :)
the allowed image types currently are jpg, jpeg, gif and png. We can negotiate other file types if anyone has any requests.
If you hotlink, you'll get the cute nessa picture: http://www.nessaholics.com/wiki_no_hotlink.png
btw, if you have something you want to hotlink from us (the wiki portion), please make the request to wiki@nessaholics.com. We will discuss it and let you know what we think. We can enable your site to link to certain images, etc.
I see there are quite a few pages but no one has started updating the main page, what's up with that? :)
-katia
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Lol
big problem
The background of the main page is the "no hotlinking" image.
AND the Heroes and Thieves page still hasn't been deleted so there can be one [album] and one [song] page.
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I went on it today and it was like blank and the lyrics messed up so I went in and did all of the lyrics section....what do you's think?
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Looks great. But why does it have to link to Nessaholics lyrics? Can they not all be on there?
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Yesh it does look great. I just wanted to say that under lyrics instead of saying Interlude, it says Interlube. LOL, just something I noticed :razz:.
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lol, i edited that real quick. It's "lude" now. :)
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mmhmm never noticed that...thanks for changing it =].
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oh and any ideas for like the picture section???
I want us to work on this wiki! it was like made and never updated or anything I think we should continue on with it.
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I always thought it was in the works. and people were preparing it. But what about the pics? Which ones can we post? Do we have to be the owner of the photos to post them? Or can we upload any pics? Either way, we should plan out which pics to upload. Have like 10 or 15 that best reflect V's looks and style.
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I always thought it was in the works. and people were preparing it. But what about the pics? Which ones can we post? Do we have to be the owner of the photos to post them? Or can we upload any pics? Either way, we should plan out which pics to upload. Have like 10 or 15 that best reflect V's looks and style.
mmhm agree. I always thought it was being worked on too but than I clicked history and the last date was like April well before I did the lyrics and stuff. But I really thing we should all work on it.
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hey itsthefiveofus, i was thinking adding all the released singles under each respective album, for ex. in BNN's section under "The Be Not Nobody Era", we'd put all singles from that album there. don't you think that would be better?
Also does anybody know when Ordinary Day was released to Radio? and pretty baby?
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mmhmm I was thinking that too as I made the new page thing but just has not gone back to take it of but yeah we can put the singles under the albums
I only know when ATM was released though have no clue when Pretty Baby or Ordinary day were released well date wise.
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oh sorry about the double post...but I like how you did the singles so far =] I was thinking we can put like small icon pictures of the single cd I have only seen one for od and atm not for pb so not sure and i will check out white houses I can just get that one from itunes store and resize it.
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that's a good idea. i see you and me are doing some stuff on it right now, together.
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yup. I have a question. What should we do for the news section? I was thinking of just taking news like basic news from nessaholics.com and just saying we got them from there but I don't know if thats ok. What do you think?
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Maybe just talk about upcoming shows, Highlights (like with stevie nicks and "The One") and then about the new album's release date. with a link to nessaholics for more news and discussion. also confirmed songs from the album. stuff like that.
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mmhmm will do.
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hey thanks for working on this, I think you both have some good ideas. It could be very useful to new fans when the album comes out :D
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mmhmm true if they dont know all of her backround or something just be like oh just go to the wiki!
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um question....Is there a way to get like videos on a wiki? I was thinking of adding a video section where its like her music videos and stuff. I was trying youtube but would not work. Any ideas?
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well you could always just add links to the videos, but im assuming you want to embed the vids in the wiki. That would be way cool, but I have not read/seen anything about that.
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mmhmm I was thinking about the link idea but that was after the whole video on the site not working.
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I added cover pictures for all the singles from Be Not Nobody, under the BNN album section. I was about to add Harmonium's white houses, but it doesn't work. I wonder if I exceeded something? Help anyone?
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mmhmm not sure thats freaky.
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I added cover pictures for all the singles from Be Not Nobody, under the BNN album section. I was about to add Harmonium's white houses, but it doesn't work. I wonder if I exceeded something? Help anyone?
how doesn't it work? i.e. what does it say/do?
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I made A 1000 Miles page, doesn't have much on it, all the stuff i did use is pretty much from the original Wiki, just planning on letting you's make it more Nessa =]
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where did you put it?
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oh and I was wondering how in the world do you put up another like topic under the Album page? Because like BNB and Harmonium are already on there and wanted to start a Heroes and Thieves one but cant figure out how to put it there... oh and I just uploaded the harmonium single artwork under tinypic and coped the upload link and just used that is that ok?
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I added cover pictures for all the singles from Be Not Nobody, under the BNN album section. I was about to add Harmonium's white houses, but it doesn't work. I wonder if I exceeded something? Help anyone?
how doesn't it work? i.e. what does it say/do?
it just displays the link to the photo in red text, not the pic. and if you click on it, it takes you to the upload files page, not even to the picture.
oh and nice job heroesandthieves, i got to your page via the "recent updates" link, but how would i get there normally?
and i have no idea how to do that, itsthefiveofus.
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I added cover pictures for all the singles from Be Not Nobody, under the BNN album section. I was about to add Harmonium's white houses, but it doesn't work. I wonder if I exceeded something? Help anyone?
how doesn't it work? i.e. what does it say/do?
it just displays the link to the photo in red text, not the pic. and if you click on it, it takes you to the upload files page, not even to the picture.
oh and nice job heroesandthieves, and lemme try to figure out that new album page, itsthefiveofus.
ok.
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ok.
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I added cover pictures for all the singles from Be Not Nobody, under the BNN album section. I was about to add Harmonium's white houses, but it doesn't work. I wonder if I exceeded something? Help anyone?
how doesn't it work? i.e. what does it say/do?
it just displays the link to the photo in red text, not the pic. and if you click on it, it takes you to the upload files page, not even to the picture.
oh and nice job heroesandthieves, i got to your page via the "recent updates" link, but how would i get there normally?
and i have no idea how to do that, itsthefiveofus.
woops sorry, i forgot to add it to the Be Not Nobody page x[
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So we should create a page for the Heroes and Thieves album. How would one create a page?
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So we should create a page for the Heroes and Thieves album. How would one create a page?
I don't know how one would do it...maybe you should ask two or three.
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mmhmm I was trying to create one a few days ago but I had nooo luck um someone PM Will... I think hes the one who started the NessaWiki and ask him or something I will try again soon.
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OK, after quite a puzzle, I figured it out and went ahead and made the Heroes & Thieves page, under the Albums section. phew. and I put the album cover and tracklisting.
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nice! I am going to go and see it now.
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i never seen vanessa carlton in events. like music awards
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i never seen vanessa carlton in events. like music awards
There's one of her performing "A Thousand Miles" at the Grammy Awards on YouTube! ;)
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i never seen vanessa carlton in events. like music awards
There's one of her performing "A Thousand Miles" at the Grammy Awards on YouTube! ;)
thnx
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On each of the album section, I guess we should put an article that describes the album, what do you think guys? So it's not just the list of the songs...