Hi all,

As most of you know, Katharine's fanbase is going to put together the most robust, expansive effort a fan base has ever done for their icon.  It will be called Katpedia.com. 

It's an online encyclopedia documenting everything about Katharine's career. It will have chapters on each week of AI, with text, photos, video. It will have specific chapters on things such as bulimia, the Dr. Keith Show, The Ghost of Mrs. Muir.

The objective is to document history and preserve it forever. The web is a tangled place. Forums are messy. We want to organize everything we've come across about Katharine from the web and on forums in one spot.  We want to make sure nothing slips into oblivion, never to be found again.

Phase I of the process with be just knowing our "personnel." Our human resources as a fan base.  Phase II will be identifying what tasks need to be completed, and then making task requests to people based on their strengths. We want to make sure we use everyone to their strengths. Allow them to contribute in the manner they want to contribute. Moreover, we want to make sure nobody is assigned too much work. It is crucial to us that nobody has to bear to big of a burden, and any efforts you put into this project are manageable.  We are hoping for 100 volunteers, and are already planning an easy web-based/email-based system to allow us to all easily know what tasks have been requested of us, know what tasks other people are working on, know what tasks have been completed, etc etc. 

Our objective is to make this as simple and userfriendly as possible, with no more technical experise required than you need to operate in this forum.

We want to archive every photo we can, every magazine scan, every television and radio interview we can. We want to transcribe televised interview and break down articles based on category. So for instance, if Katharine in an article mentions the yellow dress, we want you to be able to cut and paste that text into a form online and add it to the category "Yellow Dress."  When one of our writers writes about the Yellow Dress (yes it gets its own chapter), they simply can pull up the Yellow Dress and instantly have reseach at their finger tips to integrate.

We are documenting history as it happened, so nothing will be lost. This is a wonderful way to allow people to celebrate Katharine, because to know her is to love her. I am sure we can educate people all over the world what a courageous, sweet, talented girl she is.

What we're looking to do now is to create a list of  skills/areas of expertise/areas one excels at or enjoys  that we can list as "checkable" boxes on the volunteer registration form that will be going up this week.  So we need YOUR feedback as to what these categories should be.


It can be ripping videos, treasure hunting (googling and finding stuff), writing, uploading pictures, resizing pictures, magazine scans, owning DIVX videos, collecting/owning TV interviews. Since this is such a huge project we basically need to identify every possible facet of the operation, so we can then know our personnel, and can divide up work in an efficient and fruitful manner.

If everyone can brainstorm and provide us with a list of skills/areas of expertise/areas one excels at or enjoys, it would be very helpful to the process of creating a volunteer database. I don't just mean what you personally do best, but what all the different types of things people can do. When you think about those things, try to break them down. For instance, photos may be that you want to collect photos or that you are good at croping photos. or that you have a huge online Kat photo album. Try to really get in depth because we want to make sure when people sign up, they can be specific about what they can bring/want to bring to the project. 

Knowing our personnel will be a huge asset once we get the ball rolling.

Thanks so much.

Kenneth, here is information if you need any help. I have a degree in art, and I am a freelance artist besides being the branch supervisor at our local library. My email address is tejames84@yahoo.com.

Thanks Trina. We will have a volunteer page for you to sign up. For now I was hoping we could get lists of different skills that we should make available for people to put a check mark next to when they signup.

IE:

Writing
Editing
Graphic Design
HTML
Cropping Photos with Adobe
Ripping Videos
Gathering Videos
Gathering Photos
Human Resources/Coordinating with People
Collecting Magazine Scans
Collecting Fan Photos
etc etc

Kenneth,
Like I said I would love to at least submit a header for the site. Some other things that I could do is crop photos, resize them, the the background out of them, basically anything with Adobe Photshop would be my favorite things to do, I could also catagorize articles or photos. My email is lauren_arndt17@yahoo.com if you need anything like that. Some things that maybe other people might want to do are:

- Type up TV interviews
- Keep a list of when Kat will be in Magazines or on TV
- A list of Kat's top songs, what place they were on Charts
- A list of any auditions that she might be attending
- Create a Photo gallery of her

Hope that I can help!

Hey! I'd love to help. I can translate things from english to portuguese, since we want the site to be enjoyed by any fan, even the international fans who doesn't speak english. And Bella can help me with that. I can resize pictures too, and if anyone needs help with posting,  i can do that too.

 

Anyway, here's my e-mail   paula_laurentino@hotmail.com  . I'll do my best.

Hey Kenneth,

I think you already know what I love to do. But anyways, I can help with:

Video Editing (If needed), Ripping Videos, Gathering Videos.. Anything to do with videos really :p

The following is what I have extracted from the above so far. Please copy it into your post and add your item to the appropriate category or create a new category. At the end of the day we want the last post to contain all the skills mentioned in this thread so we do not need to go back through it! We sill be creating a signup form where you will check the skills you possess. At that time we will be asking for your contact information. All we require now is a list of necessary skills to put into the sign up form.

Basic Photo Manipulation - captures from websites
Basic Photo Manipulation - resizing
Basic Photo Manipulation - cropping
Basic Photo Manipulation - scanning

Advanced Photo Manipulation - blends
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Animated Gifs
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Captures from video
Advanced Photo Manipulation - Flash
Advanced Photo Manipulation - photo galleries

Basic Video Manipulation - ripping
Basic Video Manipulation - converting

Advanced Video Manipulation - TIVO and upload to internet
Advanced Video Manipulation - montages

Advanced Audio Manipulation - ripping radio interviews
Advanced Audio Manipulation - recording radio interviews
Advanced Audio Manipulation - ripping audio from video
Advanced Audio Manipulation - manipluatiing audio - cleaning up, cropping, effects etc.

Basic File Handling - zipping/unzipping files
Basic File Handling - uploading to internet
Basic File Handling - downloading from internet

Translation - Portugese
Translation - Indonesian

Transcribe - TV/Video
Transcribe - scans, magazines, newspapers

Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - concerts
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - tv
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - magazine
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - newspaper
Research Maintain Kats Kalendar - auditions

Research Find streaming videos
Research Find photos
Research Find magazine articles
Research Find newspaper articles

Human Resources/Coordinating People

Contacting people online

Website HTML
Website CSS
Website javascript

Thanks Phee, I just put together some more ideas...

Programing
-- HTML
-- CSS
-- Javascript
-- Building Pages
-- Content Management System
-- Internal Database

Graphics
-- Making Headers
-- Making Buttons
-- Making Templates/Website Comps


video

-- Gathering
-- Ripping
-- Transcribing to text
-- AI Performance Video
-- AI Extra Video
-- TV Show Video
-- Concert Video
-- Video Player

Text
-- Writing
-- Editing
-- Transcribing Video and Audio
-- Publishing

Articles
-- Gathering
-- Categorizing Article Content for Research Database
-- Web Links
-- Magazine Scans
-- Official AI Magazine
-- Hollywood Magazines
-- Newspapers


Photos
-- Gathering Photos
-- Cropping
-- Crediting
-- Resizing
-- Making Photo Galleries
-- American Idol Photos
-- Concert Photos
-- Fan Encounter Photos
-- Red Carpet Photos
-- Behind the Scenes of AI Photos
-- Pre-Idol Photos
-- Post Idol Photos (big sexy, today show, etc)

Audio
-- Collecting Files
-- Converting Files
-- Engineering Files
-- Audio Player
-- Gathering Radio Interviews
-- Transcribing Radio Interviews

Message Boards
IDF
KMF
AI

Capturing Relavent Posts relating to each event (top 7 week, Bulimia, etc) while also looking for media that slips through the crack.

Kat Fan Websites
Looking for media that slips through the cracks.

okay, so now we have 2 lists! Can someone combine ken's and my list into 1!

Yeah, I will.

Photos

-- Gathering Photos
-- Cropping
-- Crediting
-- Resizing
-- Making Photo Galleries
-- American Idol Photos
-- Concert Photos
-- Fan Encounter Photos
-- Red Carpet Photos
-- Behind the Scenes of AI Photos
-- Pre-Idol Photos
-- Post Idol Photos (big sexy, today show, etc)
- captures from websites
- blends
- Animated Gifs
- Captures from video
- Flash
- photo galleries


Video

- ripping
- converting
- TIVO and upload to internet
- montages
-- Transcribing to text
-- AI Performance Video
-- AI Extra Video
-- TV Show Video
-- Concert Video
-- Video Player


Audio

- ripping radio interviews
- recording radio interviews
- ripping audio from video
- manipluatiing audio - cleaning up, cropping, effects etc.
-- Collecting Files
-- Converting Files
-- Engineering Files
-- Audio Player
-- Transcribing Radio Interviews

Graphics

-- Making Headers
-- Making Buttons
-- Making Templates/Website Comps

Programing

-- HTML
-- CSS
-- Javascript
-- Building Pages
-- Content Management System
-- Internal Database

Basic File Handling

- zipping/unzipping files
- uploading to internet
- downloading from internet


Translation

- Portugese
- Indonesian


Transcribe

- TV/Video
- scans, magazines, newspapers



Research Find:
- streaming videos
- photos
- magazine articles
- newspaper articles


Human Resources/Coordinating People


Contacting people online

Text

-- Writing
-- Editing
-- Transcribing Video and Audio
-- Publishing

Articles
-- Gathering
-- Categorizing Article Content for Research Database
-- Web Links
-- Magazine Scans
-- Official AI Magazine
-- Hollywood Magazines
-- Newspapers

Message Boards

- IDF
- KMF
- AI

Capturing Relavent Posts relating to each event (top 7 week, Bulimia, etc) while also looking for media that slips through the crack.

Kat Fan Websites
Looking for media that slips through the cracks.


Kat's Calender

- Tv
- Auditions
- Newspapers
- Radio
- Releases

thanks!

sure no problem!

I could translate things to Spanish!
Katharine has an amazing Fanbase in south america!
i'll be glad to help
just ask!

Terrific katfan_argentina!!!!!

So... we already have 4 languages to work with! English, portuguese, indonesian and spanish.

Awesome!!! =D

As I said before, I have most of her performances on AI here in Divx format... there's also a couple of them in HD, which is even better =) So I'll be glad to contribute with that. And as Paulie said, I'll help with Portuguese translations =) I can download and upload stuff too... I'll think if there's something else I can do!

I can do anything Photo related. I have a ton of Kat images on my computer already bw the Phee site and the Katsconcerts site. Blends, animated gifs, montages, crop, size, what ever.....just let me know.
zamonzie

Well, I could probably do a little of everything on that list if I had more time (other than media capturing--because I don't have the software). But I'll keep it simple and whittle it down to three basic things I can supply: Writing (I hear a chorus of "D'oh's"! ), graphic art work that involves making headers/banners and photo cropping, and then scanning of things from magazines or other publications. My scanner, though, needs to be upgraded (it's not a digital scanner)--so maybe that should be passed on to someone else who has a better scanner. We obviously want the best possible scans on Katpedia.

I hope you'll get 100 volunteers for this project, because it's the only way something this monumental will get underway. Though I don't think we have that many regulars here on the board. Most of the people who post every day probably only equals about 20 or 30 people. So that means the volunteers who signed up here might end up having more to do than they intended. While I want to volunteer as much as possible--I am pressed for time most days until the late-night hours. Most of my contributions would have to be at off-hours that others will have to help pick up the slack during the times I'm not available at all. Creating things over time that can be used later works the best for me (i.e. making headers/banners, writing things in advance, etc.)

If that sort of creative work from me can apply to this--then it'll make it a lot easier on my end. I guess there's no real deadlines involved in this project, so I hope that scenario I mentioned is workable.

Once we start getting to work on these things and figure out how much time it'll involve, I can probably add on to doing more depending on how easy it is with the other things. But I have a feeling that since we may get less than 100 volunteers--it might involve a lot more work for some people. However, that's fine as long as it doesn't interfere with people's lives. And I think we all have those, right?

Again, this is really an incredible idea, Ken--and I hope it can turn into how a lot of us envision it.

I already posted on the other one but...

Anything to do with writing I can do, finding pictures, interviews, all that stuff...I can do that.  I can cap pictures from videos although I'm guessing we have other better than me at that.  Basically, I'll be a part of the writing crew.  And yeah, that we'll probably just be going as fast as we can...that's good.  Don't want to deal with deadlines on this.

a little confused here as always... seems to be a bit chaotic... anways, I can do a lot of the stuff mentioned on the list, except for programming and with some thing I believe others are just better... anyways, everything with uploading, downloading, ripping, pics, vids, writing, organizing... and for the future, if anything pops up in Europe... I'm here LOL  can't think of anything more to say right now but I'm definitely with you on this project

Well we are lucky to have you. Just supplying assets is a big deal.

Greg, you'll probably be asked to write some stuff and maybe research as well.  The plan is to create a database where text can be put into a dialogue box and then a category can be selected from a drop down menu. When the writer goes to write about something, the whole team of researchers have basically done all the research for them.

Research will be the biggest and most important effort. If we can have that database than we are golden. There are 1400 pages on the AI boards to go through (we'll divide it up as signifcantly as we can) and I don't want people reading every thread, but going to each page and looking for interesting threads.


Yesterday, I went through 2 pages of IDF and 20 pages of AI.com. I just put stuff in notepad for now. Here's what I saved (it will be entered into a database in a cleaner fashion once that's up)






 Entertainment Weekly Interview, Katharine & some of the top 12
   
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1171870_3_0_,00.html



Odds Makers High on Katharine to win AI, Latest from PinnacleSports
 Mar 10th 2006, 4:30 PM

Just a tidbit...

The recent odds update at PinnacleSports.com now show Katharine as the 2nd favorite to win

the competition behind Chris Daughtry (+306). Katharine's odds have dropped from +640 to +480

in the last day. That means before you would've risked $100 to win $640, now you're risking

$100 to win $480. The next person behind Katharine is Mandisa at +601.




Pinnacle Sports became the first sportsbook in the world to offer betting on the hit reality

series by offering individual odds on the final 24 Idol contestants in mid-February. With

three weeks of performances and betting now done, Chris Daughtry has emerged as the favorite

to win the major record deal at 7/2 odds after originally opening at 8/1. Originally deemed a

47/1 long shot by the oddsmakers, Pinnacle Sportsm now lists Mandisa with the second-best

odds at 11/2. After opening as the early favorites to win the competition, Ace Young and

Katharine McPhee remain solid contenders at 6/1 odds.


Odds To Win American Idol *All odds subject to change*

Contestant- Current Odds - Opening Odds

Chris Daughtry- 7/2- 8/1

Mandisa- 11/2- 47/1

Ace Young- 6/1- 7/2

Katharine McPhee- 6/1-- 4/1

Taylor Hicks- 15/2- 10/1

Elliott Yamin - 9/1 - 65/1

Kellie Pickler - 10/1 - 8/1

Lisa Tucker - 11/1 - 11/1

Paris Bennett - 13/1 - 5/1

Kevin Covais - 40/1 - 65/1

Bucky Covington - 50/1 - 65/1

Melissa McGhee - 60/1 - 65/1

SOURCE PinnacleSports

-0- 03/10/2006





 Funny Story, Katharine's fellow contestants fear her
   
Options V
   
V Star this topic
V Email this topic
V Print this topic
V Download this topic
V Subscribe to this forum
Display Modes
V Switch to: Outline
V Standard
V Switch to: Linear+
mpl009 Add as friend    
post Mar 12th 2006, 12:12 PM
Post #1


 
*****

Group: Members

Posts: 283



   
Secrets of the 12 'Idol' Finalists

 Funny Story, Katharine's fellow contestants fear her

   
Secrets of the 12 'Idol' Finalists

link: http://tmz.aol.com/article2?id=20060310141809990001


11. Katharine McPhee: For Katharine, the best story is how her fellow contestants fear her.

They constantly talk about what a disaster it would be if they ever chose the same song Kat

picked. Fear is definitely the operative word.
11. Katharine McPhee: For Katharine, the best story is how her fellow contestants fear her.

They constantly talk about what a disaster it would be if they ever chose the same song Kat

picked. Fear is definitely the operative word.



Crytal Stark on Katharine

Which female performer impressed you?
CS: Mandisa and Katharine (McPhee) did really great. Mandisa's song (Chaka Khan — "I'm Every

Woman") — it's a risk to try to pull off Chaka Khan/Whitney Houston and she did it.

Katharine, hers was really solid and strong and fun, but I did think she played it safe. I'm

thinking, "Was she scared because of what happened last week?"

http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/accent/119436.php flowers.gif


Kat At Top 12 Party
http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=407051




http://myspace-174.vo.llnwd.net/00216/47/13/216843174_l.jpg

http://sanfernandosun.com/stories/story.as...BStories%5D=430

To actress Katharine McPhee, who plays Annie Oakley for her first professional performance,

the revised version of the play offers a stronger portrayal of the legendary shooting ace.

“For me, when I saw the movie (adapted from the original musical) I found it had a lot of

stereotypical things about Indians, but women too,” she said.

Mc Phee, of Sherman Oaks, said she noticed the underlying message of the older play was for

women to be put in their place.

In both the original and the revised play, Annie is pressured to give up her dream of

becoming Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’s gun-slinging star to be with her rival and love interest

Frank Butler.

“At the end of it, Good old Annie gives up her dreams to be with her man,” she said, “But in

our show we make sure both lovers sacrifice something so they can be together. It’s more

about equality.”

McPhee promises theatergoers will still see a very strong-willed and fiery Annie Oakley when

the musical opens.

“What’s good about the story is that Annie decides she’s not going to be the way Frank wants

her to be, she says ‘No I’m going to be my own person, my own star.’”




Top 12 Week -- Stevie Wonder
http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=408539

She just talked about what a great experience it was, how exciting it was that Stevie was

going to be there tonight, she didn't know what song Kat was singing but that she was really

happy about it. Um, they've been really busy this week with the stylists, song, fod

commercial, and she THINKS they're singing with Stevie but isn't 100% sure. Ummers, she's

gotten letters and support from fans, one mentioned her smile made her happy and her mom

thought that was a great compliment and...she will be in the audience this week...I don't

know what else lol.

------------------

Fan ENCOUNTER CHERRY BLOSSOM TOP 12
http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=408721
So, I didn't go, But I talked to Katharine!!!
   
Options V
   
V Star this topic
V Email this topic
V Print this topic
V Download this topic
V Subscribe to this forum
Display Modes
V Switch to: Outline
V Standard
V Switch to: Linear+
CherryBlossom Add as friend    
post Mar 14th 2006, 8:15 PM
Post #1



*******

Group: Members

Posts: 1,021
Gender: Female
Fav. AI4: Mario Vazquez
Fav. AI5: Katharine McPhee
View My Blog



   
Ok, so as most of you know I was supposed to go to the AI rehearsal taping today. Well, I

didn't sad.gif

At around 4am I woke up to go wait in the line, but as I went stumbling through my kitchen

without any lights, I slipped on what seemed like a dish towel and ended up falling, luckily

the kitchen counter broke my fall...right on my head wacko.gif

So after being unconcious for about 25 minutes, my stepfather found me and rushed me to the

hospital thinking the worst because there was blood and yada yada. I was fine, just a small

concussion and a few stiches, but the doctor made me stay against my will to make sure I was

fine. I was completely devastated and had my stepfather call the person I was going to meet

to let them know I wasn't going to make it.

At around 2:30pm I got a phone call from him, and I was certain he was going to rub it in my

face about how he got to see Katharine, but when I answered it, it wasn't him, it was a girl.

I asked who it was and she said it was Katharine!! He had found her after the show and called

me!! I didn't believe it was her at first, but then after saying how much she appreciated the

fact that I was going to come and how sorry she was about what happened, she sang to me to

make it right!! She sang the first part of Since I fell For you, because literally, I did

fall for her! haha.gif She had to leave right after but I thanked her again and I told her

she had a lot of friends on idolforums who wanted to wish her luck! I also told her about the

book I was making and she was like "awwww!!! That's so sweet! I never thought people would

actually be making a fanbook for me!" and I told her if I got tickets for next week I'd bring

it and she seemed thrilled. She had to leave after that and then I thanked my friend about

2000000000x times, and when I hung up I was literally on clouds (and not because of the

fall!).

Seriously guys, she's one of the sweetest girls EVER, and my God, I think I have a crush on

her now tongue.gif

So most likely I'm going to get rehearsal tickets next week, and I want the book to be even

bigger and better!! If you guys would like to send letters, poems, whatever, email them to me

at cherry_blossom_nt@yahoo.com

Can't wait to hear from you!! w00twave.gif



----

http://television.aol.com/americanidol/poll/results

---

Dial Idol

----

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=SRH&str=katharine+mcphee&styp=&sfld=C&nbc1

=1&sortval=4d&PageNum=1
Wireimage
-----


http://myidol.americanidol.com/Boards/topic.aspx?tid=93675

    *
      NY Post ERROR - Katherine's pic as the one voted off
    * 

Member     Message
FreeFMRadio view my photos
Joined: 02/23/06
Posts: 1462
   
(report inappropriate content)
Posted: 3/16/2006 7:21:00 PM PST

In today's NY Post (a paper read by hundreds of thousand of NYers) They had a picture of

KATHERINE & under the picture they had the caption "MCGhee MCGone" & went on to say how she

messed up the lyrics. OK their names are close, but they Look nothing alike. Major mess up on

their part. Hope they correct it tomorrow.

-----------------

    *
       She sounds even BETTER in person!!!
    * 

Member     Message
MandaRoo
Joined: 03/06/06
Posts: 26
   
(report inappropriate content)
Posted: 3/16/2006 8:28:00 AM PST

I recently went to the Tuesday 12:15 PM rehearsal which actually started a little after, and

she sounded AWESOME!! When she said her shoes broke earlier she wasn’t lying, because for her

rehearsal she was barefoot. Lol! I love her voice so much. It’s original and stands out. She

has what it takes to be the next AI, not only that but she looks even more beautiful in

person. I do believe that if she keeps bringing performances like that for the remaining

weeks she WILL be the next AI. She knows how to move a room, she has great stage performance,

she’s beautiful girl, and she has a stunning & unique voice.
Just thought I’d share that experience with ya’ll since your Kat fans!

PS: You guys should really try and get

-----

Kat's baby pic
Katharine's pic:
http://people.aol.com/people/galleries/0,19884,1173873_12,00.html
----

 Posted: 3/16/2006 5:01:00 PM PST

It says on IMDB, that her middle name is Dawn:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1897713/bi
o

I was just wondering if that's definately true. I have a little thing with middle names,

weird i no! Haha


Dawn on Wikedpia (kellie?)

----------

 Posted: 3/17/2006 10:50:00 PM PST

on larry king tonight- simon picked taylor chris and kelli for the top 3- and that is

ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

taylor and chris definetly- but kelli??? come on people! katherine blows her away!! can you

believe this? i feel sorry for katherine to have to roomate with her now that the contest is

getting serious and intense. i cannot stand kelli and think she has a terrible voice- and i

dont know how katherine can be friends with her.. but maybe kathereine is just a nice person.

----

http://www.katharinemcpheeonline.com/gallery/detai
ls.php?image_id=11&sessionid=54c3fde2274e68463b650
1e41d58e80b

anie get your gun

Thanks... I am really happy you can do writing.   Don't worry about deadlines.

You should be confused. The purpose of the thread was to just see what categories of skills/expertise we'd need for the project but everyone's listing what they can do the project.
It won't be chaotic. Doing it like this is to chaotic for the project to work. We will have a signup form and then a database to organize everyone's input on what they can do.

I am glad you are on the project. You seem to bring a lot to the table. thanks!

thanks ken and good to know and won't continue to be chaotic like that. I'm might be chaotic person but I don't like to work that way either I'll go through the list and see if I can think of anything else to add later when I have a little more time

wow. Awesome!