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)
• 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) Vox didn't realize Konica had been featured in 2007, ignore
• 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
• establish new account procedures (install mediawiki captcha and auth extensions)
• photos not CC licensed or authorized for use here must be removed
• work on a guidelines for community decision making and public disclosure
• Set up a kickstarter project to raise money for hosting and non-profit org
• Set up Camera-Wiki Flickr account for hosting PD, CC, and donated images
• Prepare PR info for Make, Slashdot, other high profile geek news sites
• Launch site!
• Send out PR notices

Mid term work

• Start non-profit filings to establish 501(c)(3) org to support the site going forward
• Work on changing existing web references from camerpedia.org to our new name
• set up protected page showing status of costs vs donations and thanking sponsors/contributors
• load-based job queue handler to run when site is inactive
• nightly backup script for website, blog, and DB
• establish at least two offsite backup repositories (one is already working, need another)
• script to tweet daily new page and edit totals

script to tweet when a new page is created? is there a way to make sure a tweet only occurs of the page does not have a { { stub } } annotation? else we tweet mini pages that are pretty uninformative--Heritagefutures 18:44, 18 February 2011 (PST)

we only get 140 chars anyway, so it'll probably just be stats. Something like "4 new pages, 120 edits, 12 new users". I think it's more likely we'll publicize interesting new pages in the blog where a human can select only those that are reasonably complete and worthwhile. Steevithak 07:14, 19 February 2011 (PST)

• reorg database (reduces "minor edit"s)

So far, this doesn't look possible. Trying to delete records of specific edits could corrupt the page history. Doesn't look like it would produce any performance benefits. If you don't want to see the minor edits, you can filter them out when viewing the recent edit log. Steevithak 12:13, 28 February 2011 (PST)

• discuss uploads

Yes, but only for admins. If photos of others are uploaded the rights owner must have agreed. File size limit: 1024x768 pixels, 500.000 Bytes. Of course correct attribution necessary. Modest use of that upload option should be the rule. Reason: Some very rare images or very basic explaining images could be copied from Flickr, and some new non-Flickr images could enrich our illustration portfolio. (U. Kulick 03:33, 17 February 2011 (PST))

I agree. I'd prefer to see us continue to use flickr for image storage. Hosting images here increases bandwidth costs for us. It would be cheaper just to pay the $20/year to get a camera-wiki pro flickr account and store the rare images there. Steevithak 18:25, 18 February 2011 (PST)

• enable uploads
• establish guidelines and templates for new articles
  • company
    • manufacturer
    • distributor
  • camera (3 parts? generic + analog/digital + type-specific)
  • lens
  • film
  • definition/glossary item
  • biographies (e.g. photographers, inventors)
  • other article types?
• Maintain a list of photos with possible rights problems that need replacement
  • list of problem photos

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 (just begun)

...about People

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

about famous photographers

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, cited often

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 further photographers who should appear in the category "famous photographers".

... about basics

• Film (just begun with a link, hard work still to do) VERY IMPORTANT!!!

articles which are missing no more

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

• Digital Camera memory cards, or many species? (SD, Compact Flash etc. like XD-Picture Card) ( done, see Category:Storage Media )
• 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)

article categories needing more input

• Category:Tripod
• Category:Electronic flash (especially system flashes of modern camera systems are missing)
• Category:Software
• Category:Studio accessories
• Category:Outdoor accessories

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 (done)
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

How You can find out some todo yourself

We have a special page that lists short pages: Special:ShortPages, or see our category:stub. If there's a topic for which You really like to write some additional explaining content, please feel free to do so. There's also a technically generated special page of "wanted" pages: Special:WantedPages. The numbers in parentheses beside the topic names show how often an unwritten page is linked to the existing wiki text.

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)

February 2011: It's almost clear that www.camera-wiki.org is the legal successor of www.camerapedia.org . camerapedia.wikia.com has just won one new main author, while camera-wiki-org has won several new authors and some of the old ones. In the discussions around the launch of both sites the project community showed a strong preference to keep the project running as noncommercial wiki. Voxphoto and Steevithak did the first steps and supported the new wiki technologically and with a good lot of good communication. We already have some new articles and some tidy-up of categorization. Much was done for the Wiki move todo, especially regarding a main concern that made the community feeling uncomfortable with a move to wikia's wiki copy - the image rights. Steevithak found an API interface and used it to get license info about the Flickr images used in the wiki. Many copyright-protected wiki image contribs could be regained for the project by request to copyright owners, request for offering the images thru our Flickr image pool.U. Kulick 13:40, 10 February 2011 (PST)