Camera-wiki.org:Todo list

Feel free to add whatever task you think should have priority.

High Priority Work

This is a list of things that must be done before we can relaunch and publicise the website. These are listed in roughly the chronological order in which they'll need to be done.

• Remove references to camerpedia on the flickr page but still needs final site name

• Add new site name where appropriate, Vox suggests standardizing on 'Camera-wiki' (capital C, hyphen, no TLD)
• photos not CC licensed or authorized for use here must be removed
  • list of problem photos
• site not displaying some obsolete-style Flickr static links, e.g format http://photos16.flickr.com/20759013_734849e14e_m.jpg
• Add article count on main page. Use the NUMBEROFARTICLES tag: 9,814
• Change the featured article for February. Voxphoto suggests this one (because most photo rights are clear)
• Find out which camerpedia admins are still with us and get them set up here
• Select some new admins if needed
• Write a new welcome page with the site's mission and acknowledgment of forking from Camerapedia ( rough draft by Vox but I don't know where/how to link)
• We need a new name! (camera-wiki.org)
• Change the site name in the config file from camerapedia.org to camera-wiki.org
  • community portal namespace is based on config file setting (portal-url in side nav)
  • footer link comes from config setting
  • title bar name comes from config setting
  • login screen name comes from config setting
  • Establish twitter account under new name Vox has two, @camerawiki and @camera_wiki
  • Establish FB page under new name
  • Rename camera wiki flickr group to new name
  • new logo or artwork for wiki (see upper left corner)
• Set up web hosting account
• work on a document defining requirements for community decision making and public disclosure
• Set up a kickstarter project to raise money for hosting and non-profit org
• Prepare PR info for Make, Slashdot, other high profile geek news sites
• Launch site!
• Send out PR notices
• Work on changing existing web reference from camerpedia.org to our new name
• Start non-profit filings to establish 501(c)(3) org to support the site going forward

Site fork triage list

If you find anything broken add it here. For example: missing pages, missing images, features that dont' work correctly any more, anything that used to work on camerpedia but looks broken here.

• Community Portal nav needs to point to new name space
• References are not work
• Flickr links not working
• search works only for pages edited after fork (rebuilt search index, works now)
• Mamiya_M645's history contains user with mail-address as name????? similar user w/o that exists in same history list.
  • The same thing is in history of Wikia's fork, so I think this is a case where user forgot login and created a second. Unfortunately, I don't know of way to merge the two accounts

Mid term work

• reorg database (reduces "minor edit"s)
• discuss uploads
• ebable uploads

Long term work

• Document the procedure for selecting, creating, and archiving featured articles
• Document hardware and software administration duties and procedures
• Document wiki admin procedures
• Improve site friendliness to newbies without Wiki experience--e.g. by noting well-organized sample articles, encouraging copying syntax from these
• Improve consistency between pages, e.g. image size & placement; section breaks. Want to add eye appeal for new visitors.
• Possible greater automation of Flickr image placement, to guarantee use of attribution, link back, image rights (how?)

Getting the basics right

Basic articles like Camera are still in an intermediate state.

Image checking

Image hosting

The images in the site should be hosted in Flickr's Camerapedia pool with CC-license, or in Flickr's camerawiki.net pool, and have a link that takes back to the corresponding Flickr page. There are some exceptions when a website owner explicitly permits the direct linking of images from his or her page. This does not mean that this practice is encouraged, but it is legitimate.

List of pages with images that may violate the above (add to this if needed):

• Kodak S100 (likely)

Any other image that does not link back to a CC-licensed image of Flickr's Camerapedia group, or an image of Flickr's camerawiki.net pool is suspect. If you find such an image, you are invited to delete it if no explanation is given in the talk page. (When deleting, please make relevant text edits, looking for such phrases as "As shown in the photo above".)

Image credits

All the images displayed in the site should be tagged with the proper "image rights" template (see the help page on adding images). All the pictures should be credited to their taker unless he explicitly allowed to post his/her image anonymously.

Image mining

Why linking to other sites? Much more fun it is to view through our camerawiki.net pool on Flickr. Many images are still unused in articles.

Example of an article derived from image mining: V. P. Twin . This camera image was found by searching for the keyword "British". There are further cameras under this keyword in our Flickr Pool which deserve an article here. Not only because we need as many British cameras as possible covered to reach UK readers, and last not least native English speaking writers for this camera wiki. A lever to reach more U.S. readers would be to use the search keyword "Kodak". There are many precious images of pearls of American camera production which are still unused in wiki articles. Don't fear to write too much about cameras from the giants of camera business. Kodak's big role seems to be in the past, its super-selling cameras have become historical cameras which deserve unbiassed covering in a camera encyclopedia.

Missing articles ...

These articles are still missing ( U. Kulick Dec 27th 2008 )

... about Cameras

• Photojumelle, a nice antique camera type

...about camera parts and accessories

• Rollex rollfilm back

...about People

• Those who would prefer emphasizing the "alternate photography inventor" may add an article about Hippolyte Bayard.

Maybe there are other women or men who deserve an original article in this wiki, maybe Heinrich Ernemann, the brothers Lumière, Dr. Edwin Land and a handful photographers that should appear in the category "famous photographers".

... about basics

• Film (just begun with a link, hard work still to do, VERY IMPORTANT!!!
• Digital Camera memory cards, or many species? (SD, Compact Flash etc. like XD-Picture Card ?)

articles which are missing no more

Thanks to all here several "missing articles" lost their "missing" status:

• Tessar, the well reputed highly corrected 4-element lens of Carl Zeiss (done)
• Le Daguerreotype , the first famous series of cameras,designed by Daguerre and made by Alphonse Giroux. A simple camera, but its description needs a native English writing author (done, more description still possible)
• Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre The legendary French inventor of the first wide-spread professional photographic system. (done)
• Jozef Maximilián Petzval, the inventor of the portrait lens (brief, but done)
• George Eastman (done)
• Film speed (done)
• CCD (done, but can be improved)
• Pixel and Megapixel (done)

Unsatisfactory popular pages

These pages are unsatisfactory but attract many hits, as you can see in the list of popular pages. They will harm this wiki's image.

Page	Number of views	Current version
Kodak	71,172	incomplete list of models, especially in the Autographic segment
Canon	70,261	more intro and history, please
Lens	69,027	info about coma and curvature of field is missing
Nikon	56,999	a little more info
Pentax	51,593	the company history stops around 1960
Voigtländer	49,988	intro too short
Zeiss Ikon	44,406	Ikonta article incomplete
Rolleiflex	40,560	only contains a list of models
Canon EOS 20D	33,946	no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional
Pentacon	29,075	maybe some more info
Chinon	21,323	no text about first 50 years
Canon EOS 300D	20,437	almost no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional
Nikon D70	20,226	no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional
Ansco	16,826	maybe still some more info

project status

End 2006: satisfactory: more and more people run into this camera wiki when they search information about cameras. Some add new interesting links or make corrections of articles, or offer new images to the project Flickr image pool, or even become authors of new articles or article sections. But still some cameras and other topics need (more) description inside the encyclopedia. But a great variety of article compostion styles should give authors enough inspiration to add all the missing information. The objective to become a main web-resource about cameras is on the way to be reached. (U. Kulick, 3 December 2006)

End 2008: Since some todos from this page got done and lots of cameras and companies got a page the site has become one that gives a wide overview over the world of cameras from 1839 to 2008, listing or explaining lots of details about many cameras, companies, accessories and people. Some articles just give a link or just show an image. Some of these deserve to be expanded with more information. U. Kulick 18:19, 27 December 2008 (EST)