WikiMusicGuide (now in Beta) is a portal for an open source community of music enthusiasts. Although currently membership is only by invitation, there are 300 pages in WikiMusicGuide and is still growing.

On the homepage, there is a ‘featured artist’ section, a ‘top songs’ and ‘top albums’ section (pulled from Yahoo! Music), ‘featured upcoming artist,’ ‘current events’ (pulled from MTV), and a ‘what’s popular’ section (pulled from digg). As this web site grows, I think that it will gain lots of traction as there are many people out there that would like to see the latest in music news information consolidated.

WikiMusicGuide also allows users to browse through the pages by clicking on different genres. For example, if you click on “Pop,” you will notice that there are several artists there that sing Pop music such as Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, and Franz Ferdinand. The individual artist pages do not contain the same information as Wikipedia.

The only problem with WikiMusicGuide is that Wikipedia has a larger user base and already has a music portal that contains more information. I’m not quite convinced yet to find my music information from WikiMusicGuide, but we’ll see what happens in the future.

WikiMusicGuide.com was created by WikiWebGuide L.L.C. WikiWebGuide is based in Connecticut