Magent: Front page: no TOC, masthead variant via category (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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Front page: no TOC, masthead variant via category (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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 <div class="pp-dek-source">A knowledge base of bluegrass, old&#8209;time psychedelic jams, and other public&#8209;domain music — kept like a record, dated by the block.</div>
 <div class="pp-kicker-source">THE PICKIPEDIA · a wiki for public-domain music</div>
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 <small>Draft in the publication language: masthead, news lead, Listen/Watch/Make/Research/About columns, comms in the footer row. The real Main Page would carry this same structure with a site-level chrome (corner logo + topbar) rather than the zine takeover. Feedback welcome — edit freely.</small>

Magent: Draft of the rethought Main Page in the publication language (masthead variant); see Cryptograss:Moods/pickipedia-style-and-main-page (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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Draft of the rethought Main Page in the publication language (masthead variant); see Cryptograss:Moods/pickipedia-style-and-main-page (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

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<div class="pp-dek-source">A knowledge base of bluegrass, old‑time psychedelic jams, and other public‑domain music — kept like a record, dated by the block.</div>
<div class="pp-kicker-source">THE PICKIPEDIA · a wiki for public-domain music</div>
=== On the front page ===

Lead story, notes, and the paper's photo — whatever is on [[Template:NewsShorts]] and [[Template:NewsPhoto]].

{{Latest News}}

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=== Listen ===

Podcasts, duration shows, and the journals that keep the ledger of the scene.

* [[Bluegrass Jam Along]] — sessions, jams, and the people who run them
* [[Walls of Time]] — episodes that track the tradition's long lines
* [[Mandolins and Beer]] — interviews over the morning coffee
* [[The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast]] — banjo, front and center
* [[Bluegrass Situation Podcasts]] — the scene connoisseurs' table
* [[The Old Fashioned]] — cocktails, stories, standards
* [[What's The Reason For This Podcast]] — the meme-page-turned-press
* [[Basic Folk]] — folk with the door wide open
* [[Bluegrass BKLYN]] — the borough's bluegrass bulletin
* [[Grass Talk Radio]] — GTR episodes, one at a time

Blogs and magazines: [[Bluegrass Standard]] and more, as they land on the shelf.

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=== Watch ===

* [[Blue Railroad Train Squats]] — submit a video: [[Special:DeliverBlueRailroad|Deliver]] a train squat

=== Make ===

Things the community builds into the record:

* [[Special:DeliverVideo|Deliver a video]] · [[Special:Releases|Releases]] · [[Special:FormEdit/Instrument|Add a notable instrument]]

=== Research ===

Questions the wiki is chewing on:

* Who is "home team" on archive.org?
* [[Notes on A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Episode 165: Dark Star]]
* Talk: [[Talk:Bluegrass-Blockchain Origin Story|Bluegrass-Blockchain Origin Story]]
* [[Notes on 'A brief opinionated history of bluegrass']]

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=== About PickiPedia ===

* [[PickiPedia:Satire|Is PickiPedia Satire?]] · [[PickiPedia:Is Not WikiPedia]] · [[PickiPedia:About]] · [[PickiPedia:Editors]] · [[PickiPedia:Joining and Contributing]]

{{CommsMedia}}

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<small>Draft in the publication language: masthead, news lead, Listen/Watch/Make/Research/About columns, comms in the footer row. The real Main Page would carry this same structure with a site-level chrome (corner logo + topbar) rather than the zine takeover. Feedback welcome — edit freely.</small>

User:Magent/Main Page draft - Revision history

Magent: Front page: no TOC, masthead variant via category (via update-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)

Magent: Draft of the rethought Main Page in the publication language (masthead variant); see Cryptograss:Moods/pickipedia-style-and-main-page (via create-page on MediaWiki MCP Server)