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== Big Picture Vision == | == Big Picture Vision == | ||
*Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as Business Screen and Educational Screen, | *Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as Business Screen and Educational Screen, [https://www.filmpreservation.org/sponsored-films/sponsored-films] and other sources. | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
*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. | *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. |
Revision as of 11:50, 6 November 2021
Impt Todo List
- WikiEditor is broken - dialogs don't function
Big Picture Vision
- Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as Business Screen and Educational Screen, [1] and other sources.
- 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.
- 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.
- Allow an approved list of collaborators to add and edit films.
Skip Requests
Jerimee Requests
- create film namespace - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Why_you_would_want_a_custom_namespace
- improve Template:Filmjr
improve docadd lang field- add Collection field
- add Held By field
- 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!
- 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
- URL formatting
- clean links
- evaluate if we should install this: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
Minor Todo
- fix favicon - https://realfavicongenerator.net/
- review this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:NamespaceInputWidget