It doesn't make a whit of difference when the info's collected, as long as its done before its entered. It's just a predecessor in the task list, and does not have to be the same resource, is all.

It doesn't make a whit of difference when the info's collected, as long as its done before its entered.

OK, disclosure, I had three beers over lunch, but ita, you and I are still talking at cross porpoises.

Model A: People collect data, and write it down in some way. Time passes. Then either they or someone else goes through that data, when an editing interface is ready, and puts it in.

Model B: An editing/inputting interface is made ready. People can then sit at their computers going through the Watchers' Guide or the Unofficial Guide to Buffy by Keith Topping, or flipping windows between our site and another site, or any other method, and grab the info and enter it at the same time. "Episode X, blah blah blah Riley blah blah blah Initiative, blah blah blah -- Willy's Bar. Aha! Saverio Guerra appears in this episode as Willy." Click.

So, I'm probably being obtuse, but Model B was the way I imagined it.

Whichever way is good, John. Neither one breaks the system. Point being, the data is collected either way before it's entered (ala PMM), or just before it's entered.

Why is that confusing?

Why is that confusing?

See above re: beer for lunch probably.

Model B implies that we put the functionality together, but with a mostly-empty database, then people just enter the data directly. I don't know why but that's the way I always imagined it.

Model A implies two separate and probably simultaneous working parties, one working on the interface, one making lists -- but it also appears to me like duplication of effort. You make a list, then you enter it.

I think it's only about modes of work. If work is parcelled to me by actor, I'm going to go through and find everything JM was in, and then I'm going to enter it. You might not. Both of us will have collected everything JM was in and entered it, though. I can start now, you won't start until the system's up.

That's all. Both things still have to be done.

You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.

Giles, 'Never Kill A Boy On The First Date'

This is actually from "Reptile Boy."

do people know about this page ? Cause I'm thinking a lot of the work is done for the episode guide.

There are a bunch of places to gank the info.

AFAIK, our angle would be a) it's ours b) we can vote and rank and stuff c) we'll have the coolest searching options ever.

Mootest of the moot, since no volunteers have stepped forward with offers to code it. Or the quiz, either.

I am a gatherer, not a coder.

also? insent again.

C'mon! All the cool kids are coding.

I just realized, above and beyond guides or quizzes, we have a feature need that's reasonably compartmentalized. Quote editing.

For this I'd love coding and design volunteers.