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 on the PC Discord if you're unsure under which section heading it should go.

To-Do List

Meta Items

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)
Complete	Make a todo list. ✓		User:Teltura
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.
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.
Complete	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.
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.
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.
Complete	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.
Complete	Card Categories	What categories do we allow cards to be sorted into? How fine-grained do we go?
Complete	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.
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.
Complete	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.
Complete	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.
Complete	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).
Complete	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?
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?
Complete	Sidebar Links	The sidebar can be customized. What makes sense to put there?
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.

Migration Items

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)
Complete	Gather useful extensions	Gather, evaluate, and get Kralik to install extensions that would be useful for the building up of the wiki. Current list: Nuke, Cite, Scribunto, SyntaxHighlight, ParserFunctions, PdfHandler, WikiEditor, CodeMirror, ConfirmEdit, QuestyCaptcha, Cargo, TemplateData, GeoCrumbs, Page_Forms, Tabber, Moderation.	User:Teltura
Complete	Get extensions installed	Pester Kralik until he installs all the necessary extensions for the wiki.	User:Teltura User:Kralik
Complete	Construct the IstariBot	Create a general-purpose bot that can sync card data between Teltura's database and the wiki.	User:Teltura
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
Complete	Migrate converted dokuwiki articles	Once the dokuwiki articles are completely converted, mass import them using IstariBot.	User:Teltura
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
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
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
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
Complete	Main Page Recreation	Ensure the main page has, if nothing else, a recreation of the old wiki's front page.	User:Teltura
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
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
Complete	Table Rewrite	Tables didn't make it when migrating. Go through Category:Pages_With_Tables_To_Fix and clean em up.	User:Teltura
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
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
Bypassed	Security Checklist	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. 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
Complete	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

IstariBot Issues

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)
Complete	Incorporate dokuconverter	Get the conversion script into the bot itself	User:Teltura
Complete	Convert main table	Get the main card display table converting completely	User:Teltura
Complete	Add NavBar handling	The NavBar needs the set, left, and right cards inserted into its template.	User:Teltura
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
Complete	Add 4th stat to the legacy card infobox	Turns out the signet goes on row 4. Add it.	User:Teltura
Complete	Set Tables	Add code to manually regenerate the set/thumbnail/grand indexes	User:Teltura
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
Complete	Fix • Dots	Dots are showing as • instead of •, fix this.	User:Teltura
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
Complete	Connect to SQL Server	Get connected to SQL and get models created matching all of the card concepts in C#.	User:Teltura
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

Technical / Cargo Items

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)
Complete	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. Once that is done, create more templates that highlight the culture a bit more than just the symbol; see the "Green" culture highlighting here. Something like "[Elf] Elven", with the phrase highlighted in blue.
Complete	Cargo database schema design	Create a series of table definitions using cargo
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.
Incomplete	Template documentation	Come with a cohesive template documentation scheme and stick to it.
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.
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.
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.
Incomplete	Database Export	Figure out a way to get the card information exported into a new shiny version of the card spreadsheet.
Incomplete	Collection Export	Make a version of the above that corresponds to a master collection checklist
Complete	Card Portrait Thumbnails	Upload the LOTRO cropped portrait images and find a way to incorporate them as thumbnail images when referencing cards in tables (see this table here)

General Article Issues

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)
In Progress	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.
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.
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.

General Card Issues

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)

Individual Card Issues

Status	Feature	Notes	Contributor(s)