Looking for volunteers on many many chores:

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  • Adding a link to the bio from the various lists (eg from each of the best guitarist to the page of the band). Ditto for lists of best movies and writers.
  • Adding a link to the bio from the "ratings" lists (eg from the best albums of 2010 to the bios of those listed there)
  • Entering Rocco's recording dates into the history of rock (which right now has release dates)
  • Creating and moderating a forum for each musician. Readers who are authorized (login/password) can post their comments into any webpage of the rock section and their ratings are averaged into a parallel rating system.
  • Restyling of the music pages. I have zero time to take care of style. The main page and the music page have not changed in perhaps ten years.
  • Redesign biographical pages as frames
  • Recording dates. We gather the data we find at http://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/rec.html. At some point i would like to transfer those data into the chapters of www.scaruffi.com/history/long.html, which will be an even worse job. But right now there are too many missing, so it would not look good (20% of the dates in month-year format which means recording date and 80% of the dates in year format which means release date).
  • Translating the old italian pages. This would ideally be a joint venture between someone who is an expert in rock music and someone who knows italian enough to help fix the translations of the automatic translators. There are 1,840 pages that have some text only in italian: click here. The most significant ones are probably 300 or so. The automatic translations are horrible, whichever translator you use. So it really takes some italian speaker to help fix them.
  • Classifying all the albums that are listed in my yearly "best of" list according to genre, so that we can compile accurate "best of" lists by genre
  • Proof-reading all the texts on this website
  • Digitizing all the pictures of musicians that i have. I have pictures sent to me since the 1970s by labels and musicians that i never posted on the website because a) i didn't have a scanner and b) at the time space was an issue. It requires access to a good-quality color scanner and a lot of patience!
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