Hello WS Forum writers, readers and lurkers:

We're in the process of creating a new, free, open wine knowledgebase at http://vinopinions.org based on the wikipedia model.

Won't you please help us in this noble (yet fun) cause?

~VinOpinions

I personally don't care for the Wikipedia model. For all I know, the information is created by a room full of monkeys diligently typing away somewhere and perhaps creating some unkown Shakespearean plays in the process.

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Originally posted by tanglenet:
I personally don't care for the Wikipedia model. For all I know, the information is created by a room full of monkeys diligently typing away somewhere and perhaps creating some unkown Shakespearean plays in the process.

Actually Wikipedia is reasonably well policed.
Which begs the question, why a new site? Why not just add to wikipedia?

It's actually a mediawiki sister site, to be interconnected with wikipedia.

The main reasons to fork from wikipedia are to

A) allow VinOpinions.org to be structured to better provide pages on individual wines (logical hierarchy), and

B) allow an open-access wine rating application to run within the system. We want individuals to be able to rate wines on a 0-100 scale, and have the averaged results posted in real-time.

BTW: the long-term collaborative effort of monkeys built what we call civilization.

~VOPT

WTTB

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Originally posted by VinOpinions:
BTW: the long-term collaborative effort of monkeys built what we call civilization. ~VOPT

Actually isn't that the premise of Planet of the Apes?

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Actually isn't that the premise of Planet of the Apes?

I went to the Forbidden Zone last summer. It looks just like it did on TV.

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Originally posted by tanglenet:

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Originally posted by VinOpinions:
BTW: the long-term collaborative effort of monkeys built what we call civilization. ~VOPT

Actually isn't that the premise of Planet of the Apes?

And Texas.

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Originally posted by Hunter:
I went to the Forbidden Zone last summer. It looks just like it did on TV.

New Jersey? New York?

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Originally posted by Dave Tong:

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Originally posted by tanglenet:

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Originally posted by VinOpinions:
BTW: the long-term collaborative effort of monkeys built what we call civilization. ~VOPT

Actually isn't that the premise of Planet of the Apes?

And Texas.

HEY!

Here's another one that the nephew of a friend of mine has started.