New Wine Wiki Vineyardia Launched

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Jon Farrington

Jon Farrington
We've recently launched a new wine wiki - "Vineyardia". The aim to provide the largest online wine resource over time, contextually all in one place, and need everyone who is interested in wine to do their little bit. I seems to be taking shape and growing with user additions everyday.

Categories are broad, including:

* Wine Regions
* Wine Publications (including Wine Blogs)
* Wine Retailers
* Wine Producers
* Vineyards
* Champagne Houses
* Wine Brands
* Wine Events
* Wine Education
* Restaurants

It really east to make additions, edit and amend. Add your business, blog, website, or just general wine knowledge, and link it up.

Here's how you can add content: http://vineyardia.com/enwiki/Adding_Content_to_Vineyardia

Here's a link to the main page: http://vineyardia.com/enwiki/Main_Page

It's big project and ambitious, but initial uptake is very, very encouraging. Check it out.
 
I am confident most of the stuff, in true Wiki tradition, will be made up of figments of each contributor's imagination.

Well, I have actually checked it out and the first page I've seen , on Spain's wine regions, is not anyone's figment it's simply outdated. The new European Union regulations have changed all of these rules on appellations.
 
An interesting idea, Jon. Good luck with it. Since it took a team of bloggers to assemble the list of DOCGs that no one in the Italian government or any extant text actually had, I suspect that with sufficient contributions it could be as accurate as any crowdsourced repository.

Frankly, though, the one thing that you could do better than any book is the lists/maps/contact info for producers. Especially in Old World regions, this information can be almost non-existent in any useful way. And the Wiki's advantage is that it can (theoretically) be kept current. If you're going to focus your efforts on something, that's where I'd do it.

But otherwise...along the lines of what Victor wrote, I'm not sure you mean to place the Russian River Valley in Napa, for example. There's a long, long road ahead.
 
Thanks for the comments.Yes, this project is ambitious,and mistakes will be made along the way.

The beauty of the wiki model is that anyone, can add content, edit, and amend. If there is a mistake, you can fix it.

Kay, you can add any content you like, but over time anything that is not factual will be changed, and anything that is ludicrous, will more than likely be removed.

VS - If the information is wrong, you have the ability to change it.

Joel - Yes

Thor - Thanks for your advice. This is how we started this project, there is lots of info on wine on the web, and many areas are very strong, ie the blogging community, retailers, but much of the info is fragmented, and hard to find. Hence - Vineyardia.

Cole - The software works just like wikipedia. This may help: http://vineyardia.com/enwiki/Adding_Content_to_Vineyardia

Jon
 
I once went to Wikipedia's Rhone Ranger page, and since there was no mention of Edmunds St. John in the history of that August group, I added some content. Next time I looked it was gone. So, good luck.
 
Well, Wikipedia doesn't allow a person or company to edit their own information (if they catch it). I see the reason why they do this, but it can be frustrating if you're the entity whose info isn't correct.

Next time, just do it under a pseudonym.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Well, Wikipedia doesn't allow a person or company to edit their own information (if they catch it). I see the reason why they do this, but it can be frustrating if you're the entity whose info isn't correct.

Next time, just do it under a pseudonym.
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Yeah like Thor or oops.
 
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