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

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.

improvements to Template:Filmjr

Higher

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

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 Requests

• 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

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

Done

• fix logo on narrow screens - progress at least - retiring this task
• create this Ken Nordine
• fix Template:YrMovies - I think I did this
• enable PHP intl (ICU) extension http://ephemeralfilm.info/jr/pinfo.php

Minor Todo

• fix favicon - https://realfavicongenerator.net/
• review this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:NamespaceInputWidget