Editing LOTR-TCG:Master TODO


Welcome, one and all!  Below is a grand to-do list of all known issues that need to be addressed on the LotR-TCG Wiki.  Feel free to take any item for your own; be sure to put your username in the rightmost column when you do so, so that future contributions can be coordinated.  

Anyone can add items to this list; please speak up [https://discord.gg/mmyYfJ7 on the PC Discord] if you're unsure under which section heading it should go.


== To-Do List ==

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|+ Meta Items
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! scope="col" | Notes
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Make a todo list. ✓
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| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | Perpetually In Progress
| Expand the to-do list as needed
| The wiki is an ongoing project.  Add items as needed, and update the status of items on this list as appropriate.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Create and improve [[Help:Getting_started]]
| Grease the wheels of those who come after, and help reduce the barrier of entry to meaningful contribution.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Evaluate card infoboxes
| The old card display was bottlenecked by the admin being the only one who could edit it.  We now have more control over its display, as well as the ability to template out changes so that affecting the visual display of all cards is done in one place rather than literally modifying all cards.  We should identify what information should show up on all cards, how it should be arranged, and what visual flair we might add.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Look into Decks
| How do we integrate decks into the wiki?  Do we set up a namespace and just make an article per deck?  Figure these details out and implement them.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Article Organization
| The old wiki had two kinds of articles: those that were about cards, and those that were chucked under the semi-hidden "main index" link.  Now we've got the ability to organize articles between categories and namespaces; figure out how we should divvy everything up.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Design a navigation layout and stick to it
| The best wikis have a logical "flow" to them, some sort of structure or hierarchy that dictates how pages link to one another.  Many times this is done through the help of breadcrumb templates at the bottom of related pages, but not always.  Map out and organize all of the [[Mechanics]]-related pages, take stock of the different ways cards can be listed, and organize a structure that is easy to navigate and doesn't rely on the user frequently using the search bar or special pages to get to standard articles.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Card Categories
| What categories do we allow cards to be sorted into?  How fine-grained do we go?
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Rework the [[Main Page]]
| This is the first thing anyone sees, and it could use an update.  Organize a more inviting layout that summarizes the game, acts as a navigational entry point for browsing, and is built to draw people in.  
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Card of the Day Showcase
| Put a "random card" readout on the main page, to act as a draw.  If randomization is too hard, set up a "card of the day" or similar readout instead, and update it regularly.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Navigation display
| The old wiki had three very small arrow icons for navigation.  The current wiki has more of an obvious table, but there are some details that could use some polish.  Decide how and if we should color-code this table based on culture and other such details that might make it pop.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| International Card Handling
| A treasure trove of previously-unknown foreign card images has been extracted from the Wayback Machine.  How can we incorporate these cards into the wiki?  Putting them on their own pages seems wasteful, yet incorporating them into each card page introduces challenges of its own.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Reprint display
| The old wiki placed promotional reprints (and regular reprints) as separate pages completely divorced from the "real" card.  Figure out a way to incorporate reprint images into the centralized card page (while preserving the reprints' solo articles, for searching purposes).  
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Figure out dream card / virtual set organization
| Previously, only official Decipher cards were represented.  How do we show virtual cards?  What's the bar for a card to be included in the wiki?  How do we keep them from tripping on each other? 
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Decide on default article templates
| As we venture into new territory of adding new cards, what's the minimum sections and information a card article should have?
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| Sidebar Links
| The sidebar can be customized.  What makes sense to put there?
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Redirect Chain
| Figure out what articles should exist to facilitate redirects, searches, and autolinking.  Possibly 1R45 -> lotr01045 -> Galadriel, Lady of Light (1R45)?

Card titles are now <Title><,Subtitle> (CollInfo).  Searching will find both card title/coll info, and all the old LOTRXXXXX pages still exist as redirects.
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|+ Migration Items
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! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Feature
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Contributor(s)
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Gather useful extensions 
| Gather, evaluate, and get Kralik to install extensions that would be useful for the building up of the wiki.  <br> Current list: Nuke, Cite, Scribunto, SyntaxHighlight, ParserFunctions, PdfHandler, WikiEditor, CodeMirror, ConfirmEdit, QuestyCaptcha, Cargo, TemplateData, GeoCrumbs, Page_Forms, Tabber, Moderation.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Get extensions installed 
| Pester Kralik until he installs all the necessary extensions for the wiki.
| [[User:Teltura]]<br>[[User:Kralik]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Construct the IstariBot
| Create a general-purpose bot that can sync card data between Teltura's database and the wiki.  
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Flesh out dokuwiki article converter
| A converter script exists that turns dokuwiki articles into MW syntax.  Finish it out and get the articles ready to be imported.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Migrate converted dokuwiki articles
| Once the dokuwiki articles are completely converted, mass import them using IstariBot.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Incorporate the Hobbit Draft Game cards into the database
| It seems that IstariBot will mostly work with the existing SQL Server database version of the cards.  Get the Hobbit cards imported so they can be integrated through that process.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Convert Hobbit images
| The existing ones are PNGs and also use titles for the filename.  Convert them to a LOTRXXYYY.jpg naming scheme.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Backup System
| Get a backup system installed on a separate server.  This should export all changes to the wiki regularly (nightly?  weekly?) and double as a canary to alert Teltura if the wiki is inaccessible. 
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Mass Article Revamp
| Once the dokuwiki converted articles are in place (and in the history), perform at least one mass update that draws from the database instead, ensuring that all of the dozens of typos and errors highlighted by the LOTRO dump are fixed before release (and incorporate the Hobbit cards).
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Main Page Recreation
| Ensure the main page has, if nothing else, a recreation of the old wiki's front page.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Handle missing Lore and Stats
| Once ParserFunctions is turned on, alter the LegacyCardInfoBox to only show those entries if there is data in them.
|[[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Handle NavBar edge cases
| Once ParserFunctions is turned on, alter the NavBar so that blank entries do not render an associated arrow.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Table Rewrite
| Tables didn't make it when migrating.  Go through [[:Category:Pages_With_Tables_To_Fix]] and clean em up.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| Comprehensive Rules Cleanup
| Comprehensive Rules infoboxes didn't make it when migrating.  Go through [[:Category:Comprehensive_Rules_References_That_Need_Fixed]] and clean em up.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Page Link Capitalization Mismatch
| Page names in MW are case-sensitive, but dokuwiki was not.  Go through [[Index]] and move all the articles to the correct location
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Bypassed
| Security Checklist
| <s>Make sure the main page and various keystone pages are locked to editing.  Make sure certain cargo operations are admin-gated.  Make sure the wiki is set to disallow anonymous edit.</s>

With the advent of the Moderation plugin, all anonymous edits are forced into a review queue before approval, so it is no longer necessary to bar anonymous edits.  Likewise, changes to the main page (normally a very active hotspot for drive-by spam edits) won't go live until approved.  Trusted users can be set to bypass this queue.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Release the Wiki 2.0
| Once all the extensions are installed, the articles are restored, and the bot no longer needs to be overwriting literally everything, get Kralik's stamp of approval, promote the wiki, and open the doors to the public.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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|+ IstariBot Issues
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! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Feature
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Contributor(s)
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Incorporate dokuconverter
| Get the conversion script into the bot itself
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Convert main table
| Get the main card display table converting completely
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Add NavBar handling
| The NavBar needs the set, left, and right cards inserted into its template.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Add card page redirects
| The old wiki had each card at lotrxxyyy.  Create these articles, but make them redirects to the real articles at "Title, Subtitle (xRxD)"
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Add 4th stat to the legacy card infobox
| Turns out the signet goes on row 4.  Add it.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Set Tables
| Add code to manually regenerate the set/thumbnail/grand indexes
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Hook Into Wiki
| This code should already be in place, but make sure that the bot can upload articles to the wiki via the API.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Fix • Dots
| Dots are showing as &#149; instead of •, fix this.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Fix + or - in a stat defeating the regex
| Currently cards with a + or - in their stat do not get entered as a stat properly.  Fix this.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Connect to SQL Server 
| Get connected to SQL and get models created matching all of the card concepts in C#.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Figure out nondestructive edit mechanism
| The ArtificerBot had its own means of ensuring it didn't accidentally overwrite any human's edits.  Ensure the IstariBot has an equivalent mechanism.
| [[User:Teltura]]
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|+ Technical / Cargo Items
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! scope="col" | Notes
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| Get culture/twilight/block icon support added
| Get SVG support turned on, then upload the culture icons as vectors.  Once that is done, create a series of templates for displaying the culture and twilight icons on their own.  <br> Once ''that'' is done, create more templates that highlight the culture a bit more than just the symbol; [https://artifactwiki.com/wiki/Aphotic_Shield see the "Green" culture highlighting here].  Something like "[Elf] Elven", with the phrase highlighted in blue. 
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| Cargo database schema design
| Create a series of table definitions using cargo
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Cargo database documentation
| Write some documentation/tutorials for the cargo tables and all the directly related templates, so anyone with at least a little programming savvy can utilize the power of #cargo_query.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Template documentation
| Come with a cohesive template documentation scheme and stick to it.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:green;" | Complete
| Card popups
| Having an image of the card popup on hover over certain links is unequivocally a useful feature that would be nice to have.  Identify what must be done to have it.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Unfeasible
| Autolinking
| The old wiki automatically linked various pages without needing editors to add manual links everywhere.  Get LinkTitles working with this wiki (and get certain problematic article titles disabled, such as Box or Ring).  

Unfortunately, LinkTitles chokes on the sheer number of article names (>8000 due to all the redirects), which adds >30 seconds to page submission times.  Unless there is a way to restrict this to mechanics pages, this is an unacceptable delay.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Detailed Advanced Search
| Zorbec's is as long in the tooth as the old wiki was, yet nothing has ever replaced that.  Get the right extensions installed and create a page that permits finely-detailed filtering and searching of cards with ever more esoteric requirements. 
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Database Export
| Figure out a way to get the card information exported into a new shiny version of the card spreadsheet.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Collection Export
| Make a version of the above that corresponds to a master collection checklist
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:orange;" | In Progress
| Card Portrait Thumbnails
| Upload the LOTRO cropped portrait images and find a way to incorporate them as thumbnail images when referencing cards in tables ([https://artifactwiki.com/wiki/Spell see this table here])
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|+ General Article Issues
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! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Contributor(s)
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Design and create Lists of Cards
| The power of #cargo_query compels you!  With the cargo databases (and the Keywords analysis), the ways to divide up all the cards in the game are myriad.  Come up with useful lists that would be nice to have when theorycrafting a new deck, for instance "List of Cards That Wound", and create pages and cargo tables for those lists.  This is something that will likely need coordinated and discussed on the Discord.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Create [[Mechanics]] articles
| [[Mechanics]] (or a similarly named hub) should act as a way of organizing all articles about the game, and should be the first place someone can look when they have questions.  Find what phrases, game actions, and concepts are missing (or are horribly underserved), stick those up as articles, and fill them in.
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| style="width: 15%;text-align:center;color:red;" | Incomplete
| Introduce Format Articles
| The old wiki is woefully inadequate when it comes to explaining the various blocks and formats that the game can be played in.  Rectify that.
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|+ General Card Issues
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|+ Individual Card Issues
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! scope="col" style="width: 15%" | Feature
! scope="col" | Notes
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