DramaWiki - Information Repository for Asian Dramas UPDATE

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Has anyone else been experiencing ridiculously slow loading times when browsing the D-Wiki?

Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

it has been slow for the past few days..i cant even edit sometimes because the page keeps on timing out.. Sad

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Performance should improve now.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks Ruroshin. I've been using it tonight and it's been back up to speed. I appreciate all the hard work. Smile

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:21 am Post subject: Talent Agencies Post Rating: 0

How would the powers that be feel about transitioning actors' existing, external talent agency links into DWiki category links? Then we'd generate lists of the agencies' other clients to which we could manually add info about the agencies themselves.

IMHO, there are two main reasons the average user would click on an agency link: to learn about the agency, or to learn more about the actor.

If someone wants to learn about the agency, that person would be better served by an informative internal page rather than being placed immediately onto the agency's cruel doorstep.

Those who want to learn more about the actor can follow the "Official Site" link at the bottom of the actor's DWiki page. Then we wouldn't have the inevitable two links to the same domain on each actor's page.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I read the first few pages and the last few pages, so if this is in the middle somewhere, I apologize.

Are there plans to eventually allow information about Asian movies in the wiki as well, or is there another website that does this? Often, I'll look at an actor's bio page and want to find out what the movie they were in is about, but there's never anything but maybe a link to the official website, often in a language I can't understand.

Even if D-Addicts doesn't allow it, is there another wiki site that does this? It is a feature I would like very much!

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Haha, nice picture.

Well it is a good idea to think about adding new categories like company pages. In wiki terms it would make sense if we will have (or already have) several articles about companies or related articles (artists?). Since there are already some articles on Wikipedia and on ThePPN we have been linking them instead of creating our own. How many articles about (noteworthy) companies or agencies could we expect and are the associated artists drama related at all? How hard is it to keep track of the clients(artists) leaving a company and maybe joining another, or isn't that a problem?

Generally I like the idea of associating existing articles through new categories. In this case we would need a (sub)category for each company or agency and a super category for all the subcategories. But one nasty thing is that you will constantly have to switch or remove the categories if the persons change or end their relationship to a company (or small mafia-like managements if you like). I don't like adding information to the wiki that is subject to change and needs to be updated or validated a lot. I don't know much about the japenese (or generally asian) entertainment industry. Just some thoughts...

And some random related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%27s_Entertainment
http://wiki.theppn.org/Category:Talent_Agency

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

The reason I'm against categorizing by artist association is that DramaWiki is not aka ActorWiki. That's my platform - put our energies into the TV dramas, which is our number-one focus. We are still missing thousands of TV dramas on DramaWiki. Ai no Gekijyo is still over 50-percent incomplete. 98-percent of the 1980s shows are still not documented. Quashlo is working his ass off at cleaning all of our bad romanizing up and completing the existing dramas. Let's continue locating and documenting these shows, and clean up what we already have.

ThePPN does an EXCELLENT job focusing on the artists, and a lousy job at TV dramas. I don't see the logic in repeating what they're doing on DramaWiki, and IMHO vise-versa. That's the whole point about the Internet! It is a waste of resources to repeat and data mine the same information on every site! You go to KFC for fried chicken, and hamburgers at a burger joint.

--- groink

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

You are my hero Doraburi, love the images. I have nothing to add to this, I was just wondering if it's only me experiencing a 403 forbidden error when using the google search on dramawiki? Actual pages work fine just the search engine seems wonky?

Edit - Works fine for me now, must have bee something on my side.