Talk:Serial numbers
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You probably know about Schneider serial numbers... but, the reason for Kodak's weird 13-month year is that George Eastman was a fan of crackpot calendar reform--Vox 22:39, 22 February 2011 (PST)
- Ross, Schneider has already been coded as a table.., will put in, in a sec...--Heritagefutures 22:53, 22 February 2011 (PST)
- What about a general article about serial numbers with links to further pages: "Serial numbers, ..." "... Japanese lenses" "... Japanese cameras" "... German cameras" "... U.S.-American cameras" "... Kodak"? Otherwise the article soon grows longer than Problem photos ;-) U. Kulick 01:40, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Good point, Uwe, but I would suggest let's cross that bridge when we get there...there are not that many serial number compilations out there... but if we get another half dozen, we may want to split off and have a main article as you suggest...--Heritagefutures 02:28, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Hadn't you figured out a neat trick for collapsing text boxes? It could just be a list of categories and brands, clickable to expand the particular one a reader cared about.--Vox 12:17, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- The collapsible boxes (dropimage) don't work in this wiki? rebollo_fr had done the coding in the old camerapedia. Maybe Steve can help out?--Heritagefutures 12:35, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Good point, Uwe, but I would suggest let's cross that bridge when we get there...there are not that many serial number compilations out there... but if we get another half dozen, we may want to split off and have a main article as you suggest...--Heritagefutures 02:28, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- What about a general article about serial numbers with links to further pages: "Serial numbers, ..." "... Japanese lenses" "... Japanese cameras" "... German cameras" "... U.S.-American cameras" "... Kodak"? Otherwise the article soon grows longer than Problem photos ;-) U. Kulick 01:40, 23 February 2011 (PST)
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- Hm, looking at this demo in Firefox 3.6, collapsing seemed to work correctly for me... --Vox 12:57, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- But it's not working in Safari (but once was)--Heritagefutures 13:06, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Works for me (Firefox 3.6.13 on Redhat Fedora GNU/Linux). It's possible we've got an old version of the template. As best I can tell, it may have originated from Wikipedia's dropimage template, which is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dropimage
- is working for me too... was stumped by the fact that the 'Press Me' was not indicated as a hyperlink...--Heritagefutures 15:08, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Works for me (Firefox 3.6.13 on Redhat Fedora GNU/Linux). It's possible we've got an old version of the template. As best I can tell, it may have originated from Wikipedia's dropimage template, which is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dropimage
- But it's not working in Safari (but once was)--Heritagefutures 13:06, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Hm, looking at this demo in Firefox 3.6, collapsing seemed to work correctly for me... --Vox 12:57, 23 February 2011 (PST)
Serial numbers here vs on Manufacturer pages
Wow, cool, I love the idea of having serial number info in Camera-wiki! :)
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a serial number section on each manufacturers page? I would think this page is going to get way too big over time, especially if we add something like the Argus serial number data that's available.
Steevithak 14:53, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- I think if we can have the Argus data, then we'd better take up Uwe's suggestion above and make an overview page for Serial numbers and then manufacturer specific ones... Let me tackle this ... I'll break up this page later today...--Heritagefutures 15:07, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Sounds good, I like that idea. So we'd have an "argus serial number page" and we could link to it from this master serial number page as well as from the argus page. That could be very useful.
- Yep will do later tonight... just a quick nomenclatorial question ... How should we address these pages? Any Wiki code preference here?
- - "Carl Zeiss, Serial numbers" note comma
- - "Serial numbers, Carl Zeiss" note comma
- - "Carl Zeiss (Serial numbers)" note brackets
- - "Serial numbers (Carl Zeiss)" note brackets --Heritagefutures 19:09, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- I would avoid commas and parenthesis and just use the same form as the Manufacturer page plus serial numbers:
- "Carl Zeiss Serial Numbers"
- Vox, Uwe, anyone else - have a thought on this?
- Steevithak 22:10, 23 February 2011 (PST)
- Without punctuation seems fine to me. By the way, this whole idea is so cool I just tweeted about the page.--Vox 12:05, 25 February 2011 (PST)
- Yep will do later tonight... just a quick nomenclatorial question ... How should we address these pages? Any Wiki code preference here?
- Sounds good, I like that idea. So we'd have an "argus serial number page" and we could link to it from this master serial number page as well as from the argus page. That could be very useful.
Kodak
Should that be under camera manufacturers rather than lenses? BTW my Carousel projector has the CAMEROSITY code on its underside too.--Vox 12:05, 25 February 2011 (PST)
- is under both headings... ;-) --Heritagefutures 13:38, 25 February 2011 (PST)
- Oh, heh, right =:-o --Vox 14:06, 25 February 2011 (PST)
- is under both headings... ;-) --Heritagefutures 13:38, 25 February 2011 (PST)
Argus
I've posted to the Argus Collector's Group mailing list to see if they'd be willing to contribute their research on Argus serial numbers. (also asked for help improving the Argus pages in general)
Steevithak 14:33, 25 February 2011 (PST)
