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Posted by Amanda Ash on Sep 17, 2009

Hi friends. Guess who's back at CBC Radio 3? Me, of course. I just couldn't stay away!

I'm back at my old desk, the one I sat in when I was an intern here in May. Right now I'm whittling away at a new project that's going to take over my life for the next four months. In August, I was awarded a $15,000 grant to research and develop a Canadian music wiki in conjunction with Radio 3.

The aim is to create a "Wikipedia" of Canadian music that will allow fans, musicians, and journalists alike to share their passion for music through a user-generated, media-rich online resource.

Cool, huh?

This wiki is also my thesis for the Master's of Journalism degree I'm taking at UBC. School's never been more fun! From a research point of view, the wiki will look at the value of user-generated content within Canada's public broadcasting system.

Right now I'm reading Andrew Lih's The Wikipedia Revolution. I've also got a stack of other books I've got to read over the next few weeks. Keeping in the collaborative media vein, it'd be great if you guys pitched in with any thoughts or advice on how we can make this wiki the best one-stop destination for Canadian music.

What would you like to see included in the wiki? Know anything about rich media legalities? Or the best wiki software to use?

I'm all ears. Or eyes, I guess.

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That's way over my head

Posted on Sep 17, 2009 by TheRadioHead

Nothing I can help you with.

I did want to congratulate you though, acquiring that grant is a real accomplishment, and that is quite a thesis project.

Good luck with it, it will be fascinating for you.
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wwwdotshwaltzdotcom

Posted on Sep 17, 2009 by wwwdotshwaltzdotcom

if we pony up info do we get to share in the grant money too
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congrats!

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 by suckamc

Here's a comparison of wiki software that's out there, conveniently on wikipedia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

I'll help out in any way I can, this is a project that I'm interested to see the result of.

Martin Cathrae
Charlottetown, PE
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What a cool project!

Posted on Sep 18, 2009 by vjbeauchamp

Good on you for winning the grant money, and this might be the best thesis project EVAR.

What I'd love to see, as someone who knows very little about Canadian indie music other than what I've been hearing in the last 6 months so, is the interconnections between artists. So a family tree of sorts -- who's related to whom, who knew whom from their hometown or from university, who played with whom, who influenced whom. Places that are important to scenes, and where the scenes are -- I suspect this is obvious to people in the greater scene, but for us outsiders, it would be very cool.

So, OMG. Loverboy is Canadian?
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re: The Canadian wiki project has begun

Posted on Oct 09, 2009 by nene

How about "the six degrees of John Southworth"? Judging from this site, he seems to have inspired many a Canadian artist...and still remains a bit of a secret. How Canadian indie is that?!