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Help Wanted: Project To Collect All Star Wars Documentaries
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16-Jun-2005, 9:19 PM

Thanks for the feedback DarthAstuart, I began a revision:
http://noneinc.com/Archive/StarWarsMedia/SWMediaListVer2.html
((((Updated here: http://noneinc.com/Archive/FlimsiplastDatabase/))))
It's greatly simplified, and is in chonological order. (year/month/day) At the moment i'm envisioning that this page will list everything, very simple and straight forward, then the "Info" category will link to another document which will contain show specifics. Everything from basic information (who, what, when, description, imdb link, synopsis, various searches, etc.) to the different forms it's been preserved in. (check out vcdquality.com for their individual entry pages, i'm going to copy from them to start)

As for the basic listing page, i'm slowly getting away from the color key (maybe ver3 will remove it) but i would like to maintain someway to differentiate between cannon, official, semi-official and fan activities. Is it enough that fan preservation versions would only be mentioned in the individual Entry pages? (i think this is what you we're alluding too) So most likely the Type category will disappear. Spacewise there's room on this main page for other info, which would be important enough to show up here?

I don't think there will be so many releases that splitting them up by year into different pages would be necessary, i've left a bar (which has a link to, so if your at the top of the page you can quickly click to a year later in the document) for each of the major years. Most likely for each movie release year.

One way to have it so that the complete listing can be viewed on the same page with the individual entries would be to use frames:
http://noneinc.com/Archive/StarWarsMedia/SWMediaMain.html
((((Updated here: http://noneinc.com/Archive/FlimsiplastDatabase/))))
That will give you some sense of how that might work. thus each entry would have a link which would end up in the Entry Section below.

At the time being, just getting a list is all i'm going to focus on. If i have to start worrying about tracking down copies nothing will get done and it will bog down the thread. as you'll find on this site, there is an active trading network in play. time will flush out odd material.

As for help, at the moment just provide feedback on the set up. Feel free to do a save as and muck around with what's been done. Once everyone's satisfied with the bones, then we can all type type type all the information in.

Having filtering capabilities, means having a database system. (PHP? is that the correct terminology?) I personally don't know it, but would be happy to learn it, need some guidance, i don't know where to start. It would be great if a database could be set up, and anyone could add information, like how wikipedia works...

...could we use wikipedia? Anyone have any experience with their system?
Here's their 'Star Wars' entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars
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