Headphone-related articles on Wikipedia

[anetode]

Looking around on Wikipedia I've noticed a paucity of headphone-related articles. The ones that are there are incomplete and unreferenced, e.g. articles on manufacturers that skip over decades of product development. I'd like to improve this coverage. This is an open solicitation for ideas, please post what you would like to see covered and how. Almost anything is fair game, but since en.wiki has strict limitations there can't be a comprehensive headphone guide (like faust3ds excellent work). Also, if you have any historically interesting photographs or other images you own the copyrights to, I can help you donate them

Remember that wikipedia defaults to a ridiculously inflated google pagerank, so a good article could easily become the go-to for a huge portion of searches. And the content is free: anything anyone adds you are free to redistribute, even commercially, so long as it is released under a free license. Any photographs you'd be willing to share will likely spread wherever general content publishers cover headphone-related topics.

Anyone with an existing account or anyone interested in writing will be offered aid in article construction and dealing with the anal retentive wikipolice

Thanks for your consideration
Cheers

 

[rds]

It makes perfect sense. This is definitely the community to take this on.
I hope to see this develop!

 

[wavoman]

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Originally Posted by anetode /img/forum/go_quote.gif ...a comprehensive headphone guide (like faust3ds excellent work)...

faust3ds's "wikiphonia" is at:

Main Page - Wikiphonia

Doesn't make it in to the first page of results when you Google "headphones".

 

[anetode]

Google's Pagerank is weighed by an arbitrary initial ranking of a source processed with the number of interconnected links pointing to a specific page in that source. That's simplifying it, and if I understood all of the subtleties of the algorithm I'd be running an SEO

Google pageranks:
wiki.faust3d.com - 0
head-fi.org - 5
en.wikipedia.org - 8

The number of internal wikilinks in articles is proportional to the article's size and the number of articles which are closely related. So, better headphone articles will have a greater weight, which translates into pageviews. What Tyll Hertsens must have paid a pretty penny for is available for free.

 

[paulb09]

This would be a great idea, especially a timeline that better covers headphone development and when particular technologies were introduced (though I realise most of the different transducer technologies used today were developed a long time ago).

 

[anetode]

Timeline's an interesting idea. While transducer development has slowed, a chronology of the growth of the headphone market would serve as an effective linchpin for these articles.

Any more ideas, anyone?

 

[wavoman]

Fellow CAHPHAFs (Care About HeadPhone History And Factoids -- pronounced CafHaf ... give me some time and I'll do better, or one of you will):

Five ways to go forward, yes?

1. Make a concerted effort to add HP articles to Wikipedia; learn to live with the Wikipedia rules and rulers.

2. Do this on Wikiphonia instead, and hope the pagerank goes up. This means that faust3ds has ultimate control of the content, but that is not necessarily a bad idea.

3. Ask head-fi management to create this posting area for those of us who want to contribute, and administer it. Many members would most likely at least critique our articles.

4. Do this same as #3, but on another headphone forum.

5. Create our own web site.

What is to be done?

 

[anetode]

If faust3d is all right with with using a free license (Creative Commons by-sa-3.0, GFDL, or similar) then we can share content between the two projects for maximum utility. Faust3d is slowly becoming a comprehensive index of production 'phones. Wikipedia's articles need to shy away from covering every headphone or every spec list, so the interest there would be more in laying out the history of headphones and their current usage/distribution. One danger is that a headphone-related article is deleted from Wikipedia, I can access the deleted versions and port them over to faust's wiki. To reciprocate, I hope he would be all right with transferring some of the research and free images to be used to supplement wikipedia articles.

I have to talk to faust3d directly, I doubt he even has knowledge of this thread

 

[Pincher]

Be careful of the wikimafia, they don't like you editing their pages. I tried once to place a much improved photo of my Grado 125s on the grado page. I was quickly informed that the page "moderator" was not happy. The image was gone in a week. All the pics of the Grado page are horrible the last time I looked.

 

[anetode]

Indeed they are

Don't worry about it, I'm an admin and have spent the last few years reading up on the thousand-some policy pages, so I can wikilawyer with the best of 'em

edit: You nonetheless have to be aware of the fact that every image you find on the internet is copyrighted by someone, that someone often being a commercial entity. You have to own the rights to the photo and be able to verify that claim. & then you have to be ok with using a free media license

 

[Kabeer]

Wikiphonia is great. Hopefully Faust2D sees this too. I am sure he will be THRILLED that people are actually taking an interest to populate the wikiphonia.
(forget wikipedia, thats not a place for a project as detailed as this).


Wikiphonia was concentrating more on cataloguing the more obscure stuff. But of course we need much more and all the mainstream stuff to be added too! This can become a library of Headphone knowledge!

I think everyone from headfi can go contribute to it. I was going to start a thread soon asking people to.
Click here:
[size=large]WIKIPHONIA![/size]

 

[Faust2D]

Thanks for bringing my humble wiki to front-line of discussions.

Feel free to add all and any info. The only thing I ask to do it to comply with format and inform me of any major additions. Also please credit the sources if you know what they are.

Wikiphonia really needs help with dynamic headphone sections. I also would appreciate personal reviews of headphones in addition to just information. As a side note keep in mind that I host this site on powweb's server (and pay for it), so I have a lot of control over it but only as much control as powweb allows.

 

[Faust2D]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kabeer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wikiphonia is great. Hopefully Faust2D sees this too. I am sure he will be THRILLED that people are actually taking an interest to populate the wikiphonia. (forget wikipedia, thats not a place for a project as detailed as this). Wikiphonia was concentrating more on cataloguing the more obscure stuff. But of course we need much more and all the mainstream stuff to be added too! This can become a library of Headphone knowledge! I think everyone from headfi can go contribute to it. I was going to start a thread soon asking people to. Click here: [size=large]WIKIPHONIA![/size]

Nice marketing Kabeer

 

[wavoman]

Is someone going to post more generally and ask the membership more officially -- resolved, that we make it a suggested policy to contribute to Wikiphonia and use it as our knowledge base? That means link to it from here, etc.

Someone better connected with the ruling class here than me needs to push this agenda if that is the way forward.

 

[Faust2D]

Well there is no agenda.

Wikiphonia is an totally independent project not really a part of any forum or group. Anyone, who has interest in headphones and wants to post, can join and contribute. My intention is to compile as much information about headphones for public use as possible. I intend the resource to be completely advertisement free and created by headphone enthusiasts for headphone enthusiasts.

No money in it for me or anyone, just a "labor of love"