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-==Introduction==
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-This is a page for storing suggestions for tools or new site features.  If something becomes agreed upon it can move over to the [[UI Todo|Todo List]].
-==Online Help==
-Lionel brought up the issue of online help on the editor's list:
-<pre>
-> Although I'd also eventually like to see a glossary of all the terms we
-> used tied into the interface (both the end-user and the OI interfaces).
->   So that, as an example, if you see Imprint on the screen, it would be
-> a hyper-linked word (along with all the other field labels).  Clicking
-> on it would take you to an appropriate link in our wiki
-> glossary/formatting document, where we'd spell out what the term means
-> in general, and any particular quirks regarding our specific use of the
-> term
-</pre>
-==Cover Scan Management==
-Here's a conversation from the mailing list about covers:
-<pre>
-And I would think that comparing pictures in this regard is technically
-doable, the question is if easy accessible code for that is available.
-Jochen
-Lionel English schrieb:
-> I think one thing that would also make the job easier is if we had a
-> place for a "last known good" scan.  When replacement scans are loaded,
-> the current scan would be bumped to a "last known good" area instead of
-> deleted, and if there were problems with the new scan we could easily
-> restore the previous one.
->
-> It might also be nice to have a feature (and I don't know if this is
-> possible) that would prevent people from loading a replacement scan that
-> is identical to the current scan.  Maybe a mod to the program that
-> resized the incoming image, then did some kind of checksum comparison
-> against the current image, and if found to be identical the replacement
-> would be rejected with a message indicating "The scan you're trying to
-> load appears to be identical to the one currently marked for
-> replacement.  Please load a new scan."
->
-> Mike Nielsen wrote:
->> Well, I'm not a senior editor so I should probably shut the hell up
->> cause I don't know what you guys have talked about but here's my two
->> cents... :)
->>
->> It's probably more than a one man job.  A couple of people who keep an
->> eye on the new covers directory, and maybe a mailing list for those
->> folks to discuss things about a suspect cover.  Then any requests to
->> the error list for a replacement cover can be sent to these folks to
->> look over and decide if a new cover is really needed.
->>
->> Obviously, when I say someone needs "the balls" to tell someone no, I
->> mean we should be nice about it.  I assume that goes without saying.
->> The Valente thing makes me angry, and I'm sure Jim is tired of marking
->> them only to see him reload the same damn cover over and over.
->>
->> Which reminds me I need to scan my Essential Super-Villian Teamup book
->> and get it loaded so it's one less Jim has to deal with.  I'll try to
->> do that tonight Jim.
->>
->>
->> Mike Nielsen
->>
->> */Donald Dale Milne <[email protected]>/* wrote:
->>
->>    And, I think that if there's anyone here with the balls to tell a
->>    potential uploader that we already have a perfectly good cover, it's
->>    you
->>    too.
->>
->>    Actually, I believe that it's inevitable there will be problems with
->>    some contributor sooner or later, as some of our contributor's scans
->>    would be frequently deleted. I suspect that anyone who would be a good
->>    cover editor would have to bounce some scans, fix some scans as
->>    permanent, and maybe go as far as Mike suggests and outright ban some
->>    people.
->>
->>    - Don Milne
->>
-</pre>

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