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== 2021 updates ==

* I have figured out how to code the Recording Artist pages to dynamically display all their songs and the programs they're used in. <s>I need to add the code to another 245 artist pages</s>...

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 10:46, 30 March 2021 (EDT)
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* Footnotes now display when you mouseover the reference number. <s>This appears to be working inconsistently.</s> It only works on pages with Tables of Contents.
* Mobile site has been updated to improve category display
* Added a page to track [https://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Category:Music_Stub Music Stubs]
* Also a page with mp3's of some of the unidentified tracks [https://jfwiki.org/Unidentified_Music/ Unidentified_Music mp3s] - these mp3s are also accessible from the music stub category. I will continue to add them. 

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 13:22, 28 March 2021 (EDT)
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*I am deleting all commentary sections. I moved all opinion-based commentary to the Discussion tab, and moved fact-based commentary to Miscellanea

*After I moved most of the commentary I decided I like having the username as a section header for discussions, so I will be adding those back..

 
[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 16:57, 26 March 2021 (EDT)
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*Added a new template & category for tracking unidentified music. Results can be seen at [[:Category:Music_Stub]]

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 11:48, 24 March 2021 (EDT)
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*All the Song category pages now show the related song template and each show the song appears in
*Recording Artist category pages link to each individual Song category page
*Cast member category pages now redirect to cast member bio pages
*The Music Page now purges its cache every hour on the hour
*The search auto-suggest has been improved. It is no longer case sensitive, but still requires leading articles. Elastic Search cannot be fully implemented due to this being a shared server :(

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 16:42, 23 March 2021 (EDT)
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*I renamed all the shows which had their articles at the end.

*I tweaked the dpl output on cast member pages to show more program details

*Have finished all but one or two stray song music templates

*Updated the Songs and Recording artists links to go to dpl pages instead of MW Category pages. 

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 12:59, 19 March 2021 (EDT)
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*I updated the search modules and the default "vector" skin today, let me know if anything weird crops up.

*The Random JF Music button now generates a 10 song YT playlist

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 16:51, 15 March 2021 (EDT)

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*I have moved the new music page to [[The_Joe_Frank_Music_Page|The_Joe_Frank_Music_Page]].<br>
*And figured out how to keep it from becoming a member of every single music category, which has me ecstatic. Wiki ecstasy.

*The former music page is still accessible via a link on the Discussion tab [https://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Joe_Frank_Music_Page&oldid=14904 (JF Music Page)], so we can refer to that data when needed.

*To refresh the dynamic page after editing a == Music == section just edit & save it.

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 16:10, 11 March 2021 (EST)
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I cannot find initial air dates for the edits of [[No Show]]. 
I was thinking we could either have them in sequence, in 1986:
No Show 2:30 | 
No Show 1:30 edit |
No Show 1hr edit

Or, maybe better yet, we could have one page contain all 3 No Shows by using multiple synopses. 

Thoughts?

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 11:23, 8 March 2021 (EST)

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I made a script to check the music page youtube URLs for dead videos:<br>
I will run it occasionally. And I will try to adapt it to work for the music templates as well.
[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 22:55, 7 March 2021 (EST)
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← I added a button that will pull up a random music track from youtube in a new window! it uses YT links, live, from the music page. 
I should be able to leverage some of this code for a YT link-checker also.


[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 15:07, 7 March 2021 (EST)

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I attempted to tag all the shows with the show category and a show by date category with dates as the sort key. I may have missed one or two. 

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 14:49, 6 March 2021 (EST)

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I added a "Random show" button, but still need to tag 1/2 the shows with the hidden category Show. 
It will give you a random show, but as of this evening only selecting from the first half of his career.

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 18:46, 5 March 2021 (EST)
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Tragically, the special word <nowiki> {{PAGENAME}} </nowiki> will not work with the new dynamic page list module, so I removed all traces of it. 

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 12:08, 3 March 2021 (EST)
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I reverted to my birth name

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 09:32, 3 March 2021 (EST)



Took some words out of the first sentence of the program pages. 

Renamed Interesting Facts to Miscellanea, to manage expectations.

Added a new section, Shared material, with bulleted links to shows even if they are already mentioned elsewhere on the page. 

And Additional credits, which are in quotes when transcribed from a broadcast.
If they are from Joefrank.com or by ear, a bulleted list is good. Where these disagree we can have both, sourced.

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 21:35, 2 March 2021 (EST)

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I have added YouTube links to all the song templates

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 12:59, 28 February 2021 (EST)

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I added a module that allows users to create their own custom sidebar menu

To add a custom sidebar, create [[User:<YourUsername>/Sidebar]]. Some sample markup:
two asterisks, Page_Title pipe display text, so

<pre> ** The_Joe_Frank_Music_Page|Music page </pre>

will add a link to the music page with the link text "Music page"

It should appear directly below the 'Site updates' link. 


[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 10:37, 25 February 2021 (EST)

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I added a youtube module, you just: <pre> <youtube> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4T9CQA0UM <youtube> </pre>
Not sure how I feel about it. 
I used it on
[[Summer_Notes_(Short_Film)]]

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 21:23, 24 February 2021 (EST)

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<s>I need to update the chronology of the early shows on their individual pages</s>

I added a mobile front end, which includes a new skin and re-organization of some elements of the pages while on mobile devices.

I added broadcast dates for early shows based on data from worldcat

I added two previously unknown early shows found via worldcat

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 11:42, 24 February 2021 (EST)

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The software is now the latest version. I will continue to update it, hopefully upgrading the <s>search results and other modules</s> - those are set

I also aim to fix all the red links from the [[Other_(series)]] and add Remixes where they are missing from the series lists and chronology.

Apologies in advance for any Internal Server errors that are thrown as I update modules. if/when server errors occur give it 30 seconds and try your action again.

[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 09:09, 20 February 2021 (PST)

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It appears some pages were lost in the upgrade, these pages appear on [[Special:AllPages| AllPages]] but have no content. Seem to only be pages which haven't touched since the wiki was moved in 2011. 
I put the previous version of the site back online so I can grab those were I need to. It is at [http://old.jfwiki.org old.jfwiki.org]
The workaround for these pages, which won't allow you to edit them, is to delete and recreate them.

I also changed the default timezone to eastern
[[User:Ramon|Ramon]] ([[User talk:Ramon|talk]]) 13:23, 22 February 2021 (EST)