Help:Todo List

Impt Todo List

• Install APCu - https://www.php.net/apcu - http://ephemeralfilm.info/jr/pinfo.php
• Fix error when hyphen is included in search
• fix this: Series:Teaching speech to the profoundly deaf
• Help:Fight Spam
• implement one or both of the following
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NamespacePreload
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
• Add additional TLC Categories, design user friendly volunteer workflows where possible, and document these
• fix snafu with Template:Personjr
  • datedied
  • occ
  • org

Configure NEEDED!

• Configure Module:Uses TemplateStyles/config
• Fix this - actually configure it - Module:Pagetype/config
• Configure Module:Namespace detect/config and Module:Namespace_detect/data

Big Picture Vision

• Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as Business Screen, Educational Screen and other film related journals The Field Guide To Sponsored Films and other sources. Have embedded video of films from archive.org, YouTube, Indiana University, etc.
• Allow an approved list of collaborators to add and edit films

data structures

• Have an IMDB-ish feel allowing researchers and hobbyists to see who made and acted in the films. Which films were made by what production company, etc.
• do this: Help:Tech_Specs

improvements to Template:Filmjr

Higher

• producers : Production Companies (Where do things like McGraw Hill and Coronet and Moody go?)

lower

• oclc = ubnknown option that add cat "oclc needed"
• blank fields are still a problem for some params
• make lang cats for French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi
• People - should cast and crew be separate? Maybe not
• Institutions (? Holdings? Libraries? Collections? see below)
• Series (ie Inside/Out etc)
• Formats?
• Equipment? (ie camera's, projectors, capture and display tech)
• Events? (ie Found Footage Festival 2017)
• add date parser to DateUnpack
• determine genres
• infobox - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox&action=edit
  • Indiana Genres are NOT that helpful
  • this might work https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/miggen.html

Jerimee

• links page - other resources page - http://ephemeralfilm.info/index.php?title=Links
• improve indiana embed ext - https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/
• donate links
• investigate tags for content moderation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Tags
• volunteer page(s)
• allow "archive.org" as a valid embsv
• dopt =2 has a better display
• process these Category:Vitagraph Studios short films

Performance

• 1) set up file-based message caching,
• 2) set up shared memory caching (memcached/redis), and
• 3) enable opcache in php http://ephemeralfilm.info/jr/pinfo.php - https://www.php.net/manual/en/opcache.configuration.php
• 4) review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Performance_tuning

Minor Todo

• fix favicon - https://realfavicongenerator.net/
• AFANA bios - http://afana.org/filmmakers.htm Category:AFANA_Filmmakers
• Add regex to Template:DateUnpackB to ensure that only numbers are passed to Template:DateB Year Released (the regex goes in Template:DateUnpackB; the first link, not the second)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MediaFunctions
• https://wikiindex.org/WikiIndex:Add_a_Wiki