Moderation improvements (and general feedback)

[Paul Sharpe]

Allan Odgaard wrote:
> 
> Hi there, I just found MusicBrainz (through Relatable.com) and am very
> excited about this project.
> 

Cool, isn't it?

> I read somewhere on the site that the database would slowly be expanded.
> Is this really the plan? I mean, currently I think it's really a shame
> that there is no year attached to albums nor involved people for tracks.
> If such fields are first added later, then how big is the chance that
> these fields will be filled for older entries?

It is the plan

  http://musicbrainz.org/db_structure.html

> 
> I wanted to fix a strictly lowercase album title, but reading the
> guidelines at the moderation screen said it had to be typed *exactly* as
> on the CD cover, and so I looked, and here it actually were written in
> strictly lowercase. However, I think the reason for this was esthetical,
> as the title was printed in cursive/italic -- so perhaps this rule could
> be set a side for a more general one.
> 
> I'd suggest allowing an optional comment when submitting a moderation. For
> example I removed one album, because it was a duplicate (with all tracks
> besides one missing) -- but that's probably not obvious for the people who
> have to vote.
> 
> The current web-interface for moderating entries is not optimal. The ideal
> thing would probably be a real application (perhaps a JAVA applet) which'd
> allow for drag'n'drop (e.g. to collapse artists/albums, move tracks among
> albums/artists), edit-in-place listviews (e.g. of album contents), user
> guided heuristics to fix case setting etc. etc.

I agree with this.  I think it's going to be even more important as the
schema grows to ensure that relationships between database objects are
entered correctly.

<snip/>

Most of your points have been discussed at some point on the mailing
list

  http://www.freeamp.org/pipermail/musicbrainz/

I suggested to Rob that some 'IRC summits' might be a good idea to
increase momentum.  Style guides seem to be a hot topic atm so how about
trying that as the first.  I think license and schema summits should be
close behind.

Cheers,

paul

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