Reply To: JoCopedia
Sorry, I thought this was the part of the thread where we got credit for boiling concepts down. 😉
Here’s Mitch’s brilliant idea:
We could use the “What Links Here” to create a tab on the SongNav bar to show when a song was played live, then you could see some of the trends you’re talking about.
(Honestly, it went completely over my head that you were talking about a timeline — sorry to step on your toes!)
I think this is one of those things that there might be some way of automating: I might, without knowing how to interact with MediaWiki, imagine a way to generate a setlist that automagically added the show to a list of “shows at which song x was played”, “shows at which song y was played,” etc. (Which could be done by hand in a complicated manner using categories, I suppose.) Or else have a way of parsing the setlists, which would mean people would have to be really, really consistent about their formatting (particularly with videos, etc.).
Now I’ve beaten one of my horses, i.e., automation that no one here knows how to do, so here comes the other one. Take a look at how TMBW handles this sort of thing: they have, on each song page a “first played” and “known performances” link, the latter of which takes you to a Setlist Search that lists “Shows at which [song x] was performed”.