Re: [mb-experts] Asking the wrong Questions (Was: too many FreeDB imports?)

On Jan 7, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Don Redman wrote:
> a) The assumption that 'they' are 'stupid' or 'lazy' is plain  
> wrong. Fact is that they use MB from their point of view.

And I think the predominant point of view for people is "Don't bother  
me, I want to tag my files." Regardless of what label you want to put  
on this, (lazy, stupid, tag-motivated, whatever) doesn't matter one  
bit. Forcing people to do something when they are focused on doing  
something else will give you lots of lots of results of garbage data.

Rather than viewing these people as lazy, we should give these people  
the tools to do their job with minimal impact on their goals and MB.  
And this conversation is already headed in that direction -- I just  
wanted to pick on semantics for a bit. :)

> That would be the same thing if you'd require everybody who wants  
> to visit Paris to speak fluent French.

Thats the case isn't it?

> How about logging all the search terms?

Sure, logging search terms should be easy. But given our current  
search features this may not yield much useful.

> PS: And additionally this one: Robert, how about we start to get  
> WikiDocs out of the box _now_. Screw my exams!

I've been thinking about this very much in the past days. The  
continuing appeals for more/updated/easier docs is quickly rising to  
the top of my list of things to address. However, this change will  
require a schema change -- as will the promised transliteration  
features. Given these, I propose the following plan of actions:

1. Finshing coding the WikiDocs release -- this is mostly some CSS  
hacking and a Moin plugin.
2. Code the transliterated artist aliases features. Both of these  
features require schema changes, so lets bundle them.
2.a. Add in minor tweaks or wording discussed in this thread. Can  
someone please be a champion for these improvements??
3. Release #1 and #2 in about 1 months time.
4. In the meantime, lets start working on the improved docs that  
everyone is screaming for. Updated moderation introduction with tons  
of examples for starters.
5. Develop these docs in the main wiki and copy them over manually  
into the existing wikidocs system. Then once the next gen wikidocs  
rolls around, we can transliterate directly from the wiki.
6. Replace the search system with a lucene based system

I'm on #1 and #2. How does that sound?

BTW:
My MB dev todo list looks like:
- Finish pimpmytunes
- wikidocs
- transliterated aliases

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