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  • Founded: Mar 8, 2007
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1 jonboden Offline Send Email Mar 11, 2007
3:21 pm
Hi. All very exciting! Interested that the main page of 'Songs' doesn't offer a 'browse by title' or 'browse by type of song' type thing. Appreciate this leads...
2 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
4:23 pm
Hi Jon, Welcome to Folkopedia and congratulations on being the first poster of the first tricky question! There are only a few of us subscribed here at this...
3 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
4:40 pm
Just another thought about categorising in a Wiki. The software allows a page to belong to a number of categories. Andrew Swaine and I haven't set any system...
4 Malcolm Douglas
Malcolm_K_Do... Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
4:49 pm
... On the whole, that function is already handled by the online Roud Folk Song Index, and will be even more so when the list of master-titles is finished....
5 simon.furey
simon97385 Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
6:09 pm
Hi all, Following on from Jon's suggestion, I think it would be good to have a cross-reference of recorded versions against songs and singers (both source and...
6 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
8:00 pm
... Re: [folkopedia] Song index On 11/3/07 18:01, "simon.furey" <simon.furey@...> wrote: Hi all, Following on from Jon's suggestion, I think it would be...
7 Andy Turner
audinary_music Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
9:16 pm
Hello For songs, should we have a wiki page for every Roud number? This page could include * a link which carries out a search on that No. in the online Roud ...
8 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2007
9:34 pm
... Discussion page behind! ... Re: [folkopedia] Song index ... Shall I put in an order for a bigger server now? (Only joking!). ... Discussion page behind! ...
9 rodstrad Offline Send Email Mar 13, 2007
6:09 pm
Hello All. Sorry to be a bit behind on all this discussion - I opted for the Digest rather than getting every individual email, and have just received it ......
10 simon.furey
simon97385 Offline Send Email
Mar 13, 2007
8:21 pm
Rod, You said: Re: the MT Discography - this was started in a fit of enthusiasm after I'd 'finished' the Topic one (which forms a part of the larger discog),...
11 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 13, 2007
8:57 pm
... Many hands make light work? If folkopediafolk were to take the work you've done Rod, and expand it, it could quickly grow to be a comprehensive collection....
12 John Adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 14, 2007
1:12 pm
I¹ve been unable to reach any of the efdss servers since Tuesday night (13th March). There¹s obviously a switching/routing problem somewhere in the internet....
13 Malcolm Douglas
Malcolm_K_Do... Offline Send Email
Mar 14, 2007
2:24 pm
... Things were very slow on Tuesday evening (nearly every page request resulted in one or more 500 error messages before eventually connecting); by midnight...
14 John Adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 14, 2007
3:45 pm
On 14/3/07 14:27, "Malcolm Douglas" <malcolm.douglas@...> ... Yes, we've just rebooted the Apache server. Teething problems! ... Technology! Huh! ...
15 jonboden Offline Send Email Mar 14, 2007
11:06 pm
... Any chance Vic could be persuaded to make 'Create a new Folkopedia Page' a compulsory assignment for all 1st year folk degree students? jb...
16 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 14, 2007
11:46 pm
... Er..... Actually, I've already talked to Vic about it and although it may not be _compulsory_ we're going to be seeing some input from the Newcastle ...
17 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 15, 2007
12:22 am
... Come on in - the water's lovely! J...
18 Andy Turner
audinary_music Offline Send Email
Mar 15, 2007
10:13 pm
There is an academic precedent - see Students assessed with Wikipedia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6422877.stm Andy Any chance Vic could be...
19 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
10:55 am
Hello Folks, We have some teething problems with Folkopedia which are causing it to work very slowly. Folkopedia is driven by PHP coding interrogating a...
20 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 17, 2007
12:08 pm
Just a selection of what's gone in this week. http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Folk_Music_Collections http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Musical_Traditions_Records ...
21 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Mar 19, 2007
1:25 pm
Hell Folks, Anybody trying to use Folkopedia in the last week or so will probably have experienced failures to connect to the server. This is due to some...
22 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Apr 4, 2007
9:48 am
Hi Folks, Andy Turner has been busy putting some song information on Folkopedia and has been thinking about how to structure it. He's produced four alternative...
23 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Jun 29, 2007
11:29 am
English Folk Dance & Song Society Press Release 29th June 2007 MALCOLM TAYLOR APPOINTED LIBRARY DIRECTOR The English Folk Dance and Song Society is pleased to...
24 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Sep 30, 2007
2:34 pm
Hi Folks, After a period of relative inactivity over the summer when people were away on holidays and visiting folk festivals etc., Folkopedia has started to...
25 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Nov 19, 2007
7:49 pm
Folkopedia has been making slow but steady progress. There's still a very long way to go but some sections are filling out and the structure is emerging...
26 Johnny Adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Jun 10, 2008
9:45 pm
Hello Everybody, Despite the lack of activity on this list, Folkopedia continues to receive a steady trickle of entries. The pages now contributed can be seen...
27 jonboden Offline Send Email Sep 2, 2008
11:06 am
So how would I go about adding songs? I'd be doing it by theme not source singer. jb...
28 john adams
adelphiuk Offline Send Email
Sep 2, 2008
11:33 am
... Hi Jon, If you add a song, just use the suggested template as defined at.. http://folkopedia.efdss.org/Song_Template That page can then be linked to from...
29 irus512 Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
10:58 pm
Very much in a spirit of constructive criticism (the project and all the work that's gone into it so far is fantastic)... Finding the songs on Folkopedia isn't...
30 Andy Turner
audinary_music Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2008
8:58 pm
Ian You're certainly right about the confusion between songs and CDs. I'm not sure if there is a policy. What I've done is to use e.g. Garners Gay as the page...
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