Pink Floyd Universe: The Fan Wiki That Cataloged Every Recording and Let Users Vote on Bootleg Quality

Pink Floyd Universe is a comprehensive fan-driven wiki project that set out to log every known Pink Floyd recording—official releases, radio broadcasts, rehearsals, and especially bootlegs. Unlike the scattered trackers on forums, it aimed to be a single authoritative database, complete with lineage notes, setlists, and source descriptions.

Because bootleg quality is notoriously subjective, the project introduced a democratic voting system. Registered users can rate a recording’s sound quality on a scale (e.g., 1–5 stars), and the community’s average determines the final grade. When disputes flare—say, over whether a tape is “A” or “A−” audience source—threads are opened for discussion and a new vote settles it. The system keeps the database from veering into one person