Introducing the Chaile Wiki
As I've mentioned before, I'm no expert on... well, on anything. I'm just a fan who tries to learn what he can and pass it on to anyone else that's interested. But since I'm not in Beijing any more, I can't keep up on what clubs are actively having shows, and I only know about band activity via the Internet and through friends.
So instead of letting the venue information grow staler and staler, I've decided to drop it into a wiki, and hope others will come by and help each other. I remember trying to find Nameless Highlands and Loup Chante the first couple times—some good directions would have been handy. And I don't have a clue about venues in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, or elsewhere.
Welcome to the ChaileWiki.
In addition to venues, I'm also keeping a list of artists/bands and later, labels and shops. I'm certainly not the first to do this: Azchael has a very detailed list at Rock in China, the Chinese Rock Database is more comprehensive than I could ever hope to be (but in Japanese), and Chinese New Ear has a list as well. I think there's room for more than one. My intention with ChaileWiki is to keep information up to date, especially for links to bands' websites and activity, especially for those we've been discussing here on Chaile most. While being utterly comprehensive is great, I think I'll focus on what I like, and hopefully others will add to it and edit as they see fit.
You'll notice right off that there's not much content on it. I plan to add a couple of entries each day until I can remove the venue information from the main chaile.org site, and then go into the artists more. If any of you want to help the effort, create a user account and edit away. If there are major differences in style/structure, we can discuss it on the forum (or in the wiki discussion pages). If you need help using the system, there are docs at mediawiki.org (also in Chinese).
I hope it's useful to someone.
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