Joel R Schlosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a different subject: was the idea of making a copylefted alternative > to the Internet Movie Database ever implemented? If not, I would be > interested in doing this. A discussion (at www.greenspun.com/bboard/q- > and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001ghj; the link seems to be broken, but a > cached version at Google is available) doesn't say. It's back right now: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001ghj The "huge tally of film subgenres" I'd mentioned has long been back (I think it actually never left, but was just obscured for a while). No, it was never implemented. But its necessity should be more apparent now than ever -- aside from all the advertisements and limitations on use & redistribution, IMDb has begun implementing, as of just a few weeks ago, a new subscription model: http://pro.imdb.com/register/subscribe > I think it would be possible to use a variant of "WikiWiki" software > (a system for the decentralized, open creation and maintenance of > websites; see http:// c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb for an > introduction to the concept) to coordinate such a large project (in > particular, I am inspired by the example of the surprisingly > successful project to build a copylefted encyclopedia with WikiWiki > at www.wikipedia.com). Yeah, Wikipedia's been getting huge! It's already beginning to get encyclopedia articles on individual films and actors, eg http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Casablanca (I haven't yet seen how or where to download a Transparent copy of the Document, aside from something like "wget -m http://www.wikipedia.com";...) A wiki would probably be one of the quickest ways to build a Free Internet Movie Database ... and Sourceforge would probably welcome the project and provide mailing lists etc if you needed them.
