Actually, since all information is there but just widely dispersed, I think it is not as huge as we think.

My personal guestimate would be a month's work based on a 40 h working week, assuming it is by someone who already knows how to edit a wiki and has a grasp on priorities within the documentation. Run it through the beta forum for errors and completeness and in say two month's time DVDprofiler would have finally a decent help.

That is a huge task for us doing that in spare time -- with the added complexity of doing it as a team effort, which as a consequence would take many months to complete. So that is why, IMHO, it never really flies. But as Invelos IS a commercial enterprise, it could offer it as a limited job to a freelancer. Heck, some of the people here have said themselves they are at present out of a job, so perhaps they'd qualify. And being paid if (and only if) they deliver a decent job, is a powerful incentive. In that way, Ken could keep his concentration on programming. Not saying he should do it like that, but there are more ways to skin a cat as the saying goes if I remember well. (no offence to all you cat lovers ou there    ).

All it requires is that Invelos takes the initiative rather than the current wait and see approach.

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Mithi needs to do a repair on the Wiki's database tables ...

Unfortunately I'm only a Wiki-Admin there, I don't have any access to the machine itself. I'll mail Doug and ask him to run this fix.

But in the past this error wasn't a real problem, the wiki grumbles but the changes are saved anyways. I'll test if this has changed.

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* Bring the wiki under the wings of invelos, or create a genuine new one under Invelos' wings

Oh yes PLEASE! I'm suggesting this since the dawn of time ... well maybe just since 2005 when Doug launched the Wiki.

I don't know about other, dormant, contributors but I would migrate my articles in a heartbeat.


cya, Mithi

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Umm.. who is Doug? What's his forum nick?

DVDoug, but his last forum visit was Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:54 AM, so it's safe to assume that he isn't active here any more.

cya, Mithi

Well, on his web site you can still find useful links 'of old', but most is now quite outdated. Even the link to his collection shows a collection with no recent titles at first glance. Seems like a dead site since 2007. I guess he has a girlfriend now    .

Yet there is a Facebook link there on which account he posted this month a new photograph. So he is still alive and 'kickin' , just not on the DVD scene. Anyways, I invited him to join this thread, but I have no clue whether he'll pick up the message fast and is interested. Wait and see.

Starting to make me lean towards petitioning Invelos/Ken to add a wiki somewhere on the Invelos site.. for us users to maintain.

If we can get enough users to support it (ie: contribute). Not real keen updating a wiki which could go missing tomorrow...

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Starting to make me lean towards petitioning Invelos/Ken to add a wiki somewhere on the Invelos site.. for us users to maintain.

Would love to see this happening, I'll just not hold my breath. It was suggested several times in the past with no reaction whatsoever.

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Not real keen updating a wiki which could go missing tomorrow...

Well Invelos could be gone tomorrow, or the whole Internet for that matter.
Why not use what is there now instead of waiting for something better that may never come?

And as for "go missing": Backups!

cya, Mithi

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Oh well, I did contribute one howto to the wiki ( Boxset HowTo ) but I don't know how to back that up :-)

Nice job. You set a high bar. 

I couldn't find a link to it from the main page though.

Parsec,

A very fine page indeed, my compliments. Though I think, after adding the disks (either by EAN or by disk ID), some words to move those disks into the box set profile (Edit profile -> Box Set contents -> Add/remove) would really complete that 'how to'.