Well, how about a semi-structured approach? I still don’t think a plain wiki is going to be all that useful due to the haphazard way people will enter information, but it could certainly be done that way.
That's what I'm trying to get at and figure out. It seems it's hard to decide on what should be hard-coded and what should be freely input (albeit, maybe with some guidelines or a format that will naturally be adopted along the course). Should "https://178.128.198.122/librarywiki/articulationview/show/1 (pizz)" be a field? Admittedly, this is cleaner to navigate and you'd need to guess what to search for if there wasn't a list, but it's harder to decide what to catalog and/or it could get bloated. A "patches/arts" simple text seems usable. Different devs might use different names and we're conflating patches names with playing styles. In that sense, maybe at least having both plain text and tag/filter/category would prove useful in helping separate them. Is an automated table of all pizz arts needed or would it suffice to do a text search and just see what libraries come up? Middle-of-road seems to me to be that. Categorize some general info or similar groups, then leave details more loose. Number of RRs could be seen in manual or text info. Problem is, do people actually want to compare patches based on RRs in an automated table? It's probably wise to stick with database structure and add text fields at least. Ugh...
Here, in V1, not all attributes are shared, for example (Kontakt list can't link to string category directly, and you may also want to sort by both price and type):
https://178.128.198.122/doku.php?id=overview:families:strings
https://178.128.198.122/doku.php?id=overview:samplers:kontakt_player
While in V2 it's easier to get to the nitty gritty by filtering:
https://178.128.198.122/librarywiki/libraries/list/
(You can also see that, for example, Sampler is not filtered/grouped in V2, while in V1 you can list all "Kontakt Player" libraries)
It probably just needs more fields added, so I can try doing a closer copy of the V1 extra info (assuming it's wanted). See, for example:
https://178.128.198.122/librarywiki/libraries/show/1
vs
https://178.128.198.122/doku.php?id=libraries:spitfire_audio:strings:chamber_strings (Like abbreviations, extra videos, links, sources, etc.)
Small note: Seeing numbers in link instead of words is also kinda strange (although maybe mostly aesthetic if anything).
If you look more closely, one category is already "Violincelli" in V2 which is not really typical. Is there a hard and fast way to replace it with "Cellos", "Celli", "Violoncellos", whatever... Should all these exist and be separately filterable? Would probably be better to make a
list and start striking from it, figure out groupings and stuff (what should be text or tag; I think I integrated most stuff from the dropbox text in that).