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What Is This Wiki For?
This wiki can be used for any purpose to do with the Discogs database, for example working and collaborating on new ideas, providing extra information for users etc. Feel free to get 'stuck in'. This wiki uses the same underlying software as Wikipedia, so you can check out their help section for how to edit things.
Although you can directly edit the wiki's articles (content pages), be aware that each article also has a Discussion link. The link takes you to the article's Talk page, which is sometimes a more appropriate place for commenting on the article and its content, rather than in the article itself.
Unlike in other wiki software, article titles in this wiki can contain spaces and punctuation; there's no need to use CamelCase or hyphens/underscores in titles.
Discogs Guideline Development
Discogs_Guideline_Review_2009-Second_Round - Current proposals for updates to the Release Submission Guide and other Discogs guidelines for users. Discussion is open to all.
Special pages
- A list of all articles in this wiki, in alphabetical order (not very useful)
- A list of recent changes to articles in this wiki, useful for seeing What's New
- A list of recent changes to articles you've chosen to monitor, if you're logged in
Discogs Info
- Discogs Style Guide - Descriptions of music styles for each genre
- Discogs Glossary - Definitions of terms like ANV, rankhunter, etc.
- Discogs Credit Translations - Translations of standard credit roles
- Discogs Help Translations - Translations of Help files, including the RSG
Adding to the Database
- Errors - Possible errors to watch out for in release data
- Draft FAQ for Music People (artists, label owners, and their reps) - Answers to common questions, complaints, and demands from such people regarding info about them & their releases in Discogs
General
- Testing, Testing - A sandbox for playing with wiki formatting
- Useful resources outside of Discogs - Web sites including songwriter databases & other discographies
- HTML snippets of use - HTML examples (such as for the Notes field of a release) and Discogs formatting codes (for forums and artist/label profiles)
- Archive (obsolete and orphaned topics) - Topics that no longer need to be worked on in this wiki
- Manufacturing Process - Vinyl Records - Info about how vinyl records are made
Development Discussion
Labels brands and companies
- Packaging - Help make a list and description of all packaging types.
- Label/company brainstorming - Current exploration of alternative ways of listing label brands & companies in Discogs
- Label of release - Lazlo Nibble's explanation of the difference between label brands & companies, and how to ascertain what label(s) a release is "on"
- Label/company proposal - A proposal for credits-like data entry of labels & companies, including copyright
- Label project 2006 - An earlier attempt to assess the label/company relationship complexities presented by a number of prominent labels in Discogs, and cursory proposals for dealing with them
- Companies - A list of the kinds of companies & organizations that might be mentioned on a release
Catalog numbers
- Shadow cat# system - A proposal by Lazlo Nibble that would allow label pages to properly sort without normalizing the displayed cat#s
Artists
- Artist page reorganization - A proposal for changes to the way releases are indexed on the Artist pages in Discogs
- Several artist-related proposals - A set of proposals by Corne Mo for improving the handling of multi-artist collaborations, membership of aliases in groups, and the display of all releases (including those by aliases) on an Artist page
Releases
- Master Release - Ideas for a system for grouping musically identical releases (editions for different territories, plus repressings and reissues), to reduce the length of artist/label pages
Submission Form
- Submission form checks to do - Ideas for validations the submission forms for releases & artist/label profiles could automatically do
Other
- Outstanding v4 Issues - A list of all issues of concern in Discogs v4. It is intended to serve as a reference point, with collected questions and answers to cut down on the repeat posting in the various forums, and allow nik and teo time to answer all questions in an orderly fashion.
- Mission Statement - A draft of a Mission Statement for Discogs
