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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 | *Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as [https://archive.org/details/prelinger_library?query=screen Business Screen, Educational Screen and other film related journals] [https://www.filmpreservation.org/sponsored-films/sponsored-films The Field Guide To Sponsored Films] and other sources. Have embedded video of films from archive.org, YouTube, Indiana University, 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. | *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 12:20, 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, 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.
- 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