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| <blockquote>Your site is FANTASTIC! I haven't gone through it in much detail yet, but I love the concept. It's really great, I'm already astounded by the amount of details that you've managed to collect.<br> | | <blockquote>Your site is FANTASTIC! I haven't gone through it in much detail yet, but I love the concept. It's really great, I'm already astounded by the amount of details that you've managed to collect.<br> |
| –''Sarah C Kim, August 24, 2008''</blockquote> | | –''Sarah C Kim, August 24, 2008''</blockquote> |
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| ===beetle (Albumsix/Allthingsweezer admin)===
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| <blockquote>i'd like to weigh in on "weezerpedia":
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| i haven't joined this site, nor do i ever plan to, and i have my reasons:<br>
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| 1.) it's a gimmick. at first, a handful of people will think weezerpedia is rad and may make a few contributions, but it won't last. what will end up happening is that the majority of content updates will be provided by the creators of the site, which totally defeats the purpose of a wiki. now is the most inopportune time to open a wiki, since the online fanbase is diminished and tired.<br>
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| in addition, much of their website serves no practical purpose. for example, their forum is unnecessary. what is there to discuss, the latest edits made to the site? there already is a site that has established itself as the "new" online community, and that site is albumsix.com (why try to fight it?). second, the chat is a joke. again, what's the point? no one uses this. third, entertaining the idea of a media archive is silly. weerez has and will be the leading site for media, despite anyone's qualms about how "confusing" or "poorly organized" it is. the organization is fairly logical, and there's a search section if you disagree.<br>
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| 2.) i'm in agreement with lord in that people will have to update two wikis. no matter how popular weezerpedia gets, the general public is always going to go to the official one first (it's hardwired into their brain). and unfortunately for weezerpedia, a lot of the wikipedia updates come from diehard music fans, and not necessarily diehard weezer fans. the weezerpedia guys will always have to monitor the real wikipedia to monitor changes for their own site.<br>
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| on a related note, the article on brian bell's "sass" is one of the main things that convinced me to steer away from the site. although "the timeline of sass" may mildly humorous, i prefer my wikis to be objective.<br>
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| in closing, i wish weezerpedia all the best, but i think they are in for quite the uphill battle. i think their site stands a chance at being successful for many years to come if they focus their attention more on the wikis and less time on re-inventing the wheel. <br>
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| –''beetle, October 20, 2008''</blockquote>
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| <blockquote>I was incorrect
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| -''beetle, August 10, 2011''</blockquote>
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| ===Lord of the Manor (Albumsix/Allthingsweezer admin)===
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| <blockquote>We are all friends on this board, so to see a few of our most beloved posters try to compete with Weerez or Albumsix deserves a few question marks from the creators of those respective sites. Amiright? Let's say 2 years from now, some Weezerpedia contributors break off and announce they want to form a better Weezer wiki. Wouldn't you raise your eyebrows?<br>
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| So, if you guys want to be the information center, that is great. Ultimately, I see Weezerpedia as eventually being the perfect place for a new Weezer fan to go. A new fan could go for days reading up on everything, learning every facet of the band in a deeper manner than Wikipedia could.<br>
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| I think its when you step on the toes of your peers that you are headed in the wrong direction. But if that 2nd quote is true, than that is not your intention.<br>
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| –''Lord of the Manor, October 20, 2008''</blockquote>
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
