Help:Todo List

Impt Todo List

• Install APCu - https://www.php.net/apcu
• Fix error when hyphen is included in search
• Import IUL
  • https://gist.github.com/karkraeg/57be991d0884811218ec94ecc643c415
• make it easy to default create content via a namespace

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

• 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.

• 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. wait
  • add Collection field (the same as Held By?) wait
  • add Held By field (the same as Collection?) done

improvements to Template:Filmjr

• 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
• producers
• add date parser to DateUnpack
• determine genres
  • 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
• URL formatting
  • clean URLs
• fix logo on narrow screens

Minor Todo

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