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WIKI for New Order biography: please HELP!

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I've started a Wiki for a biography of New Order and related bands and the pages can be visually edited by any dummy in the world. Some of you may know I tried to slowly build a biography online on my own, simply because there wasn't any (and also since there hasn't been an updated book in a while), but well, it just took too long also because it can't be on my priority list at the moment... so I thought why not create a wiki? I found the right place in wikispaces, because the visual editing is amazing, it's really easy and anyone can contribute, though of course I need people to be well known trusted fans. That's why I'm asking here. Ideally we'd have an editor for each year of the biography, so they can focus their research on a certain year, but hey it's 30 years, and anyway anyone can edit any page and any editor can edit any other page. Any help is appreciated, even if you contribute only one event... If you think you may want to be a member and I should remember you're reliable (if you're not sure just send me an E Mail telling me your NewOrderOnline nickname) just follow these simple instructions: 1 go to http://www.neworder.wikispaces.com 2 Click join 3 Make an account (username and password) - confirm E Mail address 4 Go back to http://www.neworder.wikispaces.com 5 Click Join this space and submit 6 Wait for the E Mail telling you you've been added as a member of the wiki 7 Go once again to http://www.neworder.wikispaces.com 8 If you had signed out from the account click Sign In and insert username and password. This time you're logged in as a member of the wiki and you can edit the pages!

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Actually the biography HERE is a wiki... except it's not opened to everybody just yet, but it's there.

Do we really need more than one?

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I didn't realize the biography on this site is a wiki, there would still be a lot to do, but if we could keep the wiki here of course that would be much better. While respecting everyone's work on other sites and thinking having more sites is good, I've always been in favour of having all the essential resources on one major site. Since this is, without any doubt, the major site, and since we can have a wiki here, of course I'd be ready to delete my project (and happy to save some time too! :) ) if we could improve the current wiki a little. Would it be possible to add pages? I'd rather have one page for every year, or at least for every period. If you check this page from my previous attempt at doing a biography you might see what I mean. I'd like this biography to get huge, now it's pretty summarized, I mean not only the main page, but the time line as well... The seeds are already here, it can be made. Of course I'd be happy and honoured if you let me contribute, as you know unfortunately I haven't much time but all I know is an accurate biography online telling 30 years of history must be written and I wish to enter some events, and of course I'd prefere to enter the events on the biography of NewOrderOnline.com than keep another project. If I can't be part of this wiki, I'd like the members to update it and making it bigger, thus making useless my wiki. I'll be happy to delete it when I see this wiki is really getting bigger and better, and if you allow me I'll do my best to contribute. Please let me know.

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I'd like to add that I'd understand if you prefere to mantain a more summarized biography on this site for the average visitor. In this case I'd like to keep working on my project which is, more than ambitious, frankly crazy... to build an in-depth biography of all the events of these wonderful 30 years, more for the true fans which want to read the whole story, or people really interested in knowing more about the band's history anyway, to go much deeper than the hundreds of one-page bios available on the Internet (which usually are like this "from the ashes of Joy Division, Blue Monday, acid house, split, reform, Get Ready, er... and haven't they made another album last year?"). I mean, not collaging all the sources we have, sites and books (that wouldn't make sense), just listing all the improtant events (thus making wish people to read further in the sources, that's why I'd refer to them), but listing them all... the concept is similar to your timeline, but extended x100... And of course then, if you ever need anything from the project I'd develop, you could take all you want, even copy and paste the whole thing here if you wish. For me the problem is not where to do it, but to do it at all. At this point you should take the decision, which I'm going to respect anyway, whether you wish to extend this bio wiki on NOOL or keep it as it is.

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Mick - you're welcome to use any of the stuff I've written for this site - as long as you refernce me/New Order Online

If you need anything mate, give me a yell

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