The RBI Baseball Database

[Gantry]

It was asked on the other thread about the RBI Database.  Well, I've had it up and running for awhile but never really sent out the link or gave it a permanent home.  Here is what I'm envisioning:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki

Basically a Wiki (notice it's the same software as the presently down Wikipedia) that anyone can use to make/edit pages about RBI.  My vision is to have this site be THE source for RBI Baseball and the forums.  Anybody, anywhere can edit any page or start a new one. 

The beauty of this is that nobody is relying on me for the information.  Lets face it, I'm too fucking lazy to do the whole thing myself.  If we get a good core of forum members workign on it, the thing would really take off. 

Wiki is easy to use after you get the hang of it (there are a good 10-12 core commands for bold, bullets, horizontal lines, links etc) and becomes second nature after some time with it.  We could really do anything with it, first ideas:

- A page for every RBI'er
- Recreate most of the pages on dee-nee
- A page for all the glossary terms (one each)
- A page for each of you forum bigwigs
- A page for weird forum terms (JoeDirt is a cheater, hjose, etc)

Anything really related to RBI or dee-nee.  If people want to get on board, the rbidb can take over the world. 

What do you think?   

Here is one of the few pages I actually did:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/RBI_Baseball_Drinking_Game

Anyone feel free to start a new page to try out, or edit an old page.  Questions?  Comments?  Would you be interested?  I want feedback, I crave feedback...

[Nails]

Great idea.  I created an account, and I'd be more than happy to help out.

[Gantry]

Somehow I figured you would Nails, thanks!  I'm pretty sure that this is going to work, even if there isn't a huge initial outpouring. 

I'm going to make the search ask you to add a page if you search for something that isn't there.  Once that is out of the way, it's easy for people to start making their own pages...

[ultimate7]

I went to the link, but am still confused how everything will work, maybe once the easy phase comes in, since I'm not so smart.

[Gantry]

Basically you would use the search to find most terms.  If there is no term, you can immediately start making a new page. 

You can also edit the front page to link to any pages you want.  So from the front page I can have a page "RBI Players" "RBI Drinking Game" "Forum Members" etc.  Basically with wiki you can edit the page any way you want, to link to any other page you want. 

Anyone can edit any page.  Go ahead and click the "edit" button on the main page and put "hjose oqendo rules" anywhere you want.  Once you are editing a page, you can see some of the codes used for linking, bold, subheaders etc.

It's kind of like editing a forum post, except you can edit anyone's post and add whatever you want.  You can also make new posts at any time and link to those posts from anywhere...

Does that make any more sense? 

[malnuboy]

this sounds cool but I'm currently on lunch and have no time to figure it out, I like what your trying to do Gantry.

[BDawk]

What's he trying to do?
Sexual stuff?

[Flood]

What's he trying to do?
Sexual stuff?

Can I fuck your guts?

[JerryD]

I'd be glad to help, I've already contributed a couple items.

[Gantry]

Well done Jerry!  If you click on the "Recent Changes" page on the left, you can see the last set of updates.  Jerry make a quick straight pitch page:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/Straight_Pitch

Notice when Jerry made his page, he make links to Slurve and Anything Goes.  All he had to do was put the name in brackets, such as

[[Slurve]]

When editing the page.  Upon saving the page, a link is made.  The link is red, meaning no page has been created.  But if you click on the link you can instantly make a page for Slurve. 

This make sense people? 

[Gantry]

Jerry is the fucking man!  He's whipped up a Boston team in about 5 minutes, and is still working on it as we speak:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/Boston_(NES)

Can you see the power of the RBI Database now? 

[TβG]

that was cool, i edited something.  neato  :-)

[fightonusc]

I'm in...

[Gantry]

I saw that edit, Teddy - well done!  Teddy corrected a mistake about where Boston was in the selection order:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php?title=Boston_%28NES%29&curid=935&action=history

On every page, there is a "history" tab.  If you compare the last two versions, you can see the changes Teddy made.  Note "69.235.227.20" shows up as the person who made the change because Teddy wasn't logged in as a user, so it shows his IP address. 

You don't have to be a registered use to use the database, but if you are going to make many edits, it's best if you sign up.  That way you can also have a user page, a talk page and be able to watch all the pages you work on. 

[Gantry]

I'm in...

You're a rock baby!  Though it's probably not good for you, at this point I simply assume you are going to contribute to anything dee-nee has going on.  The woes of being skilled and dedicated...

[RedBarron]

I'm very dumb.  I'd like to help out by creating a Ryne Sandberg RBI page and possibly more --- Cub players of course.

How the crap do I do this?

I'm stupid. . . . . . bucket o' monkey spit stupid.

[Big Hath]

I wouldn't mind doing a Dale Murphy page

[RedBarron]

I wouldn't mind doing a Dale Murphy page

I wouldn't mind having sex with Dale Murphy either . . .  .he's dreamy.

[Big Hath]

added a link to the NES teams from the main page

[TβG]

might i suggest a coupe other additions to the team pages.  i posted a spreadsheet awhile back that had the actual positions each guy played.  important moslty for the outfielders.  it's a good bit of info and took some time to research, i think i posted it or sent it to fighton, now i cant remember.  i also posted the managers of each RBI team, that might be a good piece of info for the database.  too bad i can't find these posts here, sorry.  i just think if someone can find those, it's good info for such a thing as a DB.