MoeDB
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:20 am
A few years ago, the moderation and tagging team had and still have a problem: the wiki. Wikis are great to write articles and store non organised informations. But if we look at the current state the wiki, it's anything but unorganised. It's not a well thought interfaces. Truth is the wiki is not the appropriate tool needed for e-Shuushuu.
Thus, I have a project called MoeDB which is almost in a working state. What is it? It's a a replacement for the wiki, or at least the referencing part, meaning artists, circles, studios, work. That's more than 25 000 items which I have migrated to a new database. Focus are on artists at the beginning.
What does it mean for you? Lots of things.
First, it's easier to edit. No more wiki template. Each field will have its input like a real form with auto suggestion for existing circles/studios
Secondly, it will be closer to the source! MoeDB is not a website but service by design. Thanks to this, it will be possible to create a new artist entry directly from Pixiv. From here, you can imagine what is possible, like prefilling websites and other information without any copy/paste.
Third, one source of truth. If you use my Greasemonkey script which adds romanji name on Pixiv or directly onto Shuu, it will be up to date with MoeDB.
Wildest dream? You better dream, but perhaps one day you will be able to run your own imageboard on your computer, with everything already tagged.
Great! So, when do we start? Soon. I have migrated the wiki, you can add/edit and list artist and... also delete.
There is a lot of hurdle on the way for a v1.
-Access control: Anyone can edit at the moment. I plan to have roles: members, contributors, moderators, administrator
-Graphical interface: Lack some basic functions like search and paging.
-Design: I'm alone and have little time for design.
-Test: Little time to test as well.
So my main problem is time. In the last 2 weeks I managed to work 2 to 4 hours every evening but it's not a sustainable habit. So I need some help, mainly testers, and if you feel like it, developers( Javascript, Nodejs/iojs with sails, Angular, LESS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL).
Here you can access it:
https://moedbcc.herokuapp.com/#/artist
Warning, it's unstable, so you can mess with it but don't expect the data to remain there. You should continue to edit the wiki but ultimately, it should replace it.
Thus, I have a project called MoeDB which is almost in a working state. What is it? It's a a replacement for the wiki, or at least the referencing part, meaning artists, circles, studios, work. That's more than 25 000 items which I have migrated to a new database. Focus are on artists at the beginning.
What does it mean for you? Lots of things.
First, it's easier to edit. No more wiki template. Each field will have its input like a real form with auto suggestion for existing circles/studios
Secondly, it will be closer to the source! MoeDB is not a website but service by design. Thanks to this, it will be possible to create a new artist entry directly from Pixiv. From here, you can imagine what is possible, like prefilling websites and other information without any copy/paste.
Third, one source of truth. If you use my Greasemonkey script which adds romanji name on Pixiv or directly onto Shuu, it will be up to date with MoeDB.
Wildest dream? You better dream, but perhaps one day you will be able to run your own imageboard on your computer, with everything already tagged.
Great! So, when do we start? Soon. I have migrated the wiki, you can add/edit and list artist and... also delete.
There is a lot of hurdle on the way for a v1.
-Access control: Anyone can edit at the moment. I plan to have roles: members, contributors, moderators, administrator
-Graphical interface: Lack some basic functions like search and paging.
-Design: I'm alone and have little time for design.
-Test: Little time to test as well.
So my main problem is time. In the last 2 weeks I managed to work 2 to 4 hours every evening but it's not a sustainable habit. So I need some help, mainly testers, and if you feel like it, developers( Javascript, Nodejs/iojs with sails, Angular, LESS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL).
Here you can access it:
https://moedbcc.herokuapp.com/#/artist
Warning, it's unstable, so you can mess with it but don't expect the data to remain there. You should continue to edit the wiki but ultimately, it should replace it.