WikiMusician:About

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The thinking behind "WikiMusician"

WikiMusician is a musician’s multimedia wiki to playing, recording and performing music. It allows anyone to learn skills and knowledge related to the creation of music, and provides a free platform for musicians to share their related talent by teaching each other with written words, digital audio files and digital video files. The website is navigated with a standard browser through hierarchal listings of topics, categories, articles and demos. Content may also be accessed directly with a built-in search function or via external search engines. Anyone can access content, modify content or contribute new content. The look-and-feel is similar to Wikipedia but is multimedia-focused to serve multisensory aspects of being a musician. To pay for infrastructure, the site uses the Google Adsense program, which displays small context-sensitive ads on the right and bottom margins.

User Requirements

WikiMusician meets the following user requirements:

Creative Community

WikiMusician provides musicians with a place to learn from peers who have already paid their dues on particular questions or topic. It also provides a creative outlet to teach and perform for a global audience of the people who will apppreciate your talent like no others can. This is sorely needed for motivation and fulfillment as bandmates come and go, and opportunitites for live performance contract in many areas.

Structure

The site organizes musicianship by under a dozen intuitive topical divisions; each contains related categories housing articles, sound files and demos. Users quickly spot the target category with minimal effort.

Speed

The main menu takes users to category listings by clicking on the top-level topic. Users link to articles, etc. with one or two more clicks. Alternatively, users may use the built-in search function to find a particular product or category, or use built-in Google search for targets on the web.

Sensory

WikiMusician supports all types of multimedia, which is required for thorough comprehension of musical topics.

Comprehensive

Community rights to edit and add to the site allow anyone to ensure that all relevant topics and points of view are included.

Brevity

Users want to gather basic information without marketing clutter. The #1 editorial policy for WikiMusician is that content be brief, to-the-point, and illustrated as much as possible with photos, sound files and videos demonstrating the topic at hand. Users are encouraged to include links to resources on other sites that add value to a contribution.

Neutrality

When products are discussed, they should be presented in alphabetical order by vendor name. There should be no special treatment, and the wiki system allows anyone to comment on any product, service or category.

Global

With support for 70 languages, WikiMusician provides international capability for musicians around the world.

Interactive

Anyone is free to contribute to WikiMusician. Log in or create an account to edit and collaborate.

Affordable

The website is free to use. There are no membership fees or contributions required.

Automated

The website allows anyone to receive automatic notification of changes to any page.

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