Editing LOTR-TCG:Master TODO

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| 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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| 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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| Card Categories

| What categories do we allow cards to be sorted into?  How fine-grained do we go?

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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Sidebar Links

| The sidebar can be customized.  What makes sense to put there?

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| Redirect Chain

| Figure out what articles should exist to facilitate redirects, searches, and autolinking.  Possibly 1R45 -> lotr01045 -> Galadriel, Lady of Light (1R45)?

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| Gather useful extensions  

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| Construct the IstariBot

| Create a general-purpose bot that can sync card data between Teltura's database and the wiki.   

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| Migrate converted dokuwiki articles

| Once the dokuwiki articles are completely converted, mass import them using IstariBot.

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| 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.

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| 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.  

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| 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).

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| Main Page Recreation

| Ensure the main page has, if nothing else, a recreation of the old wiki's front page.

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| Security Checklist

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| 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.

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| Incorporate dokuconverter

| Get the conversion script into the bot itself

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| Convert main table

| Get the main card display table converting completely

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| Add NavBar handling

| The NavBar needs the set, left, and right cards inserted into its template.

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| 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)"

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| Add 4th stat to the legacy card infobox

| Turns out the signet goes on row 4.  Add it.

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| Set Tables

| Add code to manually regenerate the set/thumbnail/grand indexes

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| 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.

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| Connect to SQL Server  

| Get connected to SQL and get models created matching all of the card concepts in C#.

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| 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.

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| 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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| Cargo database schema design

| Create a series of table definitions using cargo

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| 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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| 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).   

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| 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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| 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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| 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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