Camera-wiki.org:Todo list
Feel free to add whatever task you think should have priority.
Contents
Getting the basics right
Basic articles like Camera are still in a very intermediate state.
Image checking
All the images in the site should be hosted in Flickr's Camerapedia 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 are not in Flickr's Camerapedia pool but legitimately display in Camerapedia:
- Riley (confirmed)
- Yashica Electro GX (likely, under investigation)
- Polaroid 600/600 SE (likely, under investigation)
- Fujipet (likely, under investigation)
- Fujica ST-605 (likely, under investigation)
- Kodak S100 (likely, under investigation)
List of pages containing images whose display in Camerapedia is probably not allowed (all these images are commented out: placed within <!-- and -->):
Any other image that does not link back to Flickr's Camerapedia 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 mining
Why linking to other sites? Much more fun it is to view through our Camerapedia pool on Flickr. Several of the now 700 images are still unused in articles.
Good pages
These pages are already good but would be yet better with some work. They will enhance Camerapedia's image.
- Olympus folders, work in progress
Missing articles ...
These articles are IMHO (U.kulick) missing:
... about Cameras
- Hit, the popular Japanese viewfinder camera for 17.5mm film, maybe copied as often as Leica's 35mm viewfinder cameras
- Ful-Vue, the British camera with the big viewfinder
- 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
...about People
- Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre The legendary French inventor of the first wide-spread professional photographic system
- William Henry Fox Talbot, the British inventor of the predecessor of modern photographic film conception
- Walter Zapp, the Estonian creator of the unique Minox subminiature camera
Maybe there are other who deserve an original article in camerapedia, maybe George Eastman, Heinrich Ernemann, and a handful photographers that should appear in the category "famous photographers".
Unsatisfactory popular pages
These pages are unsatisfactory but attract many hits, as you can see in the list of popular pages. They will harm Camerapedia's image.
Page Number of views Current version Canon 17,600 the company history stops around the 1940s Nikon 14,800 sketchy history Hasselblad 12,600 no history at all, should be split into separate pages Rollei 11,400 a chronology but no textual history Pentax 11,000 the company history stops around 1960 Canon EOS 20D 10,100 no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional Konica 8,900 two lines for the company history, the list of lenses would be better in separate pages Contax 8,100 the history of the Japanese Contax is sketchy Zeiss Ikon 8,000 sketchy company history, incomplete list of models Leica 7,800 a chronology but no textual history, most articles about Leica cameras are stubs Voigtländer 7,700 a chronology but no textual history 39mm screw lenses 6,500 should be reorganized and maybe split into more separate pages Kodak 6,100 sketchy company history, incomplete list of models Nikon D70 6,100 no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional Canon EOS 300D 6,000 almost no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional 42mm screw lenses 5,500 should be reorganized and maybe split into more separate pages Agfa 5,300 brief history, incomplete list of models Pentacon 5,200 sketchy company history Rolleiflex 4,300 only contains a list of models Canon EOS 350D 4,200 minimal description, confusing model names Voigtländer Bergheil unknown, ... ... but people will look for this article since the camera is often sold over 100 Euro
project status
End 2006: satisfactory: more and more people run into camerapedia 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)
