Help:Todo List

Impt Todo List

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

create film namespace - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Why_you_would_want_a_custom_namespace
create people namespace
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.

Content types needed to support this: Films, currently represented by Template:Filmjr; People - should cast and crew be separate? Maybe not; Institutions (? Holdings? Libraries? Collections? see below); Production Companies (Where do things like McGraw Hill and Coronet and Moody go?); Series (ie Inside/Out etc); Formats?; Equipment? (ie camera's, projectors, capture and display tech); Events? (ie Found Footage Festival 2017)

Allow archives and collectors to list which films they have so we can start to see which films are duplicated in collections and which are rare.
- add Collection field (the same as Held By?)
- add Held By field (the same as Collection?)

import proof of concept
- COMPLETED: a simple and small import from one locally hosted wiki to another local wiki on the same LAN was successfully completed JJR (talk) 01:20, 23 November 2021 (EST)

improve Template:Filmjr
- headers Title Source Url Summary Date Genres Subject Physical Description Main Contributors Publisher
- links page - other resources page - http://ephemeralfilm.info/index.php?title=Links
- I swear I already figured this out! Frustrating! blank fields are much of a problem, but how to handle calls to template that fail to reference a key? When the template is invoked but without a given parameter? This ought to be a common concern; not sure why I haven't found a solution yet!
  - Fix lang so it doesn't break when lang is null
- make lang cats for French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi
create fields for fiction/non Key, Value -1, "Fiction" 0, "Unassigned" 1, "Nonfiction"
find discord for mediawiki
determine genres
- Indiana Genres are NOT that helpful
- this might work https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/miggen.html
improve indiana embed ext - https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/
donate links
Improve Category:Films page
- Plan A: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Display_Title
- Help:Todo List/Improve Cat Films Plan B
URL formatting
- clean URLs
fix logo on narrow screens