User:Eighty5cacao/TODO

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Article

 * This section is for work on existing articles. For new articles (which should be drafted in userspace), see User.

App Store Review Guidelines
An iOS port of SETI@home is allegedly planned; it is unknown from that article how much of the BOINC framework will be used (possibly none). I still need to find the primary source, which is probably some forum or blog post within.

Eloi language

 * Explain the relation between cooing, babbling, motherese, and phonological development.
 * Find out more about the intermediate stages of vocal tract development between infancy and full adulthood.
 * Are there any more details to give about the Time Traveller's unreliability as a narrator?
 * allthetropes:Nameless Narrative fits the overall limited use of names in the novel. (context of this needs to be re-explained)


 * A verb "to receive" may facilitate monovalent expression of sentences that use polyvalent verbs in English: "I go to [place X]" → "I go; [place X] receives"; "I give [a gift] to Bob" → "I give; Bob receives" (but consider alternatives; see talk)
 * Chapter 8 confirms the existence of a verb meaning roughly "to dance," but I'm not sure where this fits into the article

Homebrew downsides

 * Put in a link to Sloperama #56: How to Make Your Own Video Game, but where?

HTML5 vs. SWF

 * Adobe Shows HTML5 Support With Edge Tool Preview at Gamasutra
 * Construct 2 &mdash; note: not tested for data storage efficiency etc., and will eventually be shareware
 * GameMaker: HTML5 component of GameMaker: Studio (commercial software)

Lesbian
Should any of the following be mentioned in the OOU box:
 * uncyc:Lesbo (very dubious because it is mainly about the history of the Greek island Lesbos)
 * Parthenogenesis (dubious, since it != sequential hermaphroditism)
 * uncyc:Parthenogenesis (dubious, see above)
 * Hermaphrodite &mdash; cf. Talk:Lesbian
 * uncyc:Hermaphrodite (very dubious)

Poli

 * Link dump:
 * Amazing Mom Without Lower Body Makes the Rest of Us Look Like Wimps - The Stir by CafeMom
 * Triple amputee veteran completes grueling 10.5 mile endurance race called The Beast over five-hours to honor fallen U.S. soldiers - The Daily Mail

Portfolio hosting

 * Many sites would have difficulty migrating to HTTPS because they are contracted to CDNs that don't support HTTPS (under their specific pricing plan, or at all). However, this applies more to large sites than to "portfolios." (See also User:Eighty5cacao/misc/List of CDNs by HTTPS support)
 * How common are ISPs that perform deep packet inspection to block "the HTTP or TLS handshake" instead of or in addition to merely firewalling ports? Find/ask about examples (other than governmental censorship)
 * [//blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-hire-a-programmer/ Coding Horror on how to hire programmers]

Public-domain music in video games

 * "No. 13" (Bach) in IIDX/DDR - I forgot the full title of the composition
 * Multiple songs in Lemmings series
 * Multiple songs in Parodius series
 * What is the copyright status of "Je te veux," especially in Japan (see Binary Land)?
 * What authority do performance rights organizations, such as BMI, ASCAP, and the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, have over copyright? (For example, see the Wikipedia article mentioned in the item above.)

Selkie

 * Physiology:
 * vision - compare the Moken people (better accommodation underwater than most human subpopulations, involving greater constriction of the pupil; predominantly learned but hereditary causes also possible(cn))
 * wound healing in bottlenose dolphins
 * While on the topic of dolphins, mention something about oxygen-carrying proteins in muscle and brain tissue

Single-screen multiplayer

 * as mentioned on Kotaku

Songs that sound alike

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Songs that sound alike (video games)

 * Battle Fleet vs Major Legaue (sic) Baseball - nesdev forums but some may be authorized; probably belongs on the investigation page anyway

Switch to PC gaming

 * as mentioned on Kotaku

Category

 * Main page: User:Eighty5cacao/categories for creation

Project

 * Do we need to write an official policy on dealing with spam? Such a policy should, at a minimum, give guidance on user warnings, block settings, and procedures for handling non-English comments. (Regarding the last of these, when is it necessary to use Google Translate, and when is it acceptable simply to assume bad faith?)
 * User:Eighty5cacao/Main Page redesign ideas
 * Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia have custom CSS such that, for example,  will display the page   with the text of the first footnote highlighted in a light blue color. We do not. Should we change this? (Doing so would make custom anchor tricks like [//pineight.com/mw/index.php?title=Eloi_language&diff=5880&oldid=5878 this] less useful to readers, though - the highlight color would not show IIRC)

Manual of Style

 * See also: User:Eighty5cacao/Manual of Style (songs that sound alike)

Naming convention note: For its Manual of Style, the English Wikipedia currently prefers subpages to parenthesized disambiguators.


 * Additions to Pin Eight:Manual of Style/Links:
 * YouTube linking:
 * TODO: See allthetropes:Ear Worm from "Note: When posting links to YouTube here..." on down. (In summary: Exclude the  parameter, and avoid using playlists unless absolutely necessary.)
 * When linking to a user's channel page, it is preferable to use  rather than simply , so as to avoid the possible annoyance of an auto-playing video embedded in the channel main page.
 * The Manual of Style (or a "glossary" section thereof) should explain something about the exclamation-mark notation used to describe character interpretations in fan fiction.
 * The maintainer of the aforementioned page believes the ! notation to be inspired by a line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, but allthetropes:Characterization Tags mentions a possible connection with UUCP bang paths. Most likely, TMNT inspired the use to describe character traits while UUCP inspired the use for the setting in which a character is placed. The MOS should mention something about these etymologies.
 * RFC 2119 compliance guidelines (compare User:Eighty5cacao)
 * User:Eighty5cacao/misc/MoS-Linking thoughts

As of

 * See also: wikipedia:Wikipedia:As of

Look over  in Google or another search engine. Or maybe use the built-in search function provided by the MediaWiki software

User talk:Tepples/Slashdot signatures

 * Where to mention this: [On the other hand,] compare Kuro5hin, which offers premium subscriptions but currently allows HTTPS viewing by anyone regardless of login/registration status.
 * This was inspired by the entry on mystery-meat navigation: Complaining that Mxyplyzyk uses HTTPS unnecessarily? Really? WTF? I'm not sure where this belongs, and I'm at a loss for words, which is why this is a TODO. (Theoretically, the overhead of TLS might be a concern on 3G or satellite plans with bandwidth caps. However, most of the overhead is in the initiation and termination of connections, and many mobile devices lack Flash anyway.) (IIRC, Mxy... no longer uses Flash, nor HTTPS by default. It might have originally been using Flash to make itself look more secure than it really was.)

Template

 * Port over uncyc:User:Pentium5dot1/Storage facility/Google template as  (or a sufficiently similar name)

User

 * This section includes articles that need userspace drafting.

''Update: Yes, I'm aware the IMDb forums are shutting down. No, I don't want help fixing or removing the links (yet).''
 * Maybe start a page for "Fictional character resemblances," along the lines of Songs that sound alike but in the topic of Switched at Birth. Some discussion is at allthetropes:Expy. (Should images be used at all? If so, under what conditions? If not, to what extent does this topic overlap with Costume blazons? See talk) The proposed title might not be so great: Switched at Birth is not all about appearance; it also considers occupation and personality. We should too
 * See also Totally Looks Like..., where most comparisons involve at least one real person
 * Re YTMND is cheaper: Discuss Scratch as a candidate for a "poor man's Flash."
 * User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Top misconceptions of an Aspie mind – moved to User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Aspie notes and superseded by User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Aspie notes/version 2
 * see 6 Misleading Assumptions You Make About Quiet People (cracked.com)
 * Maybe in Songs that sound alike (investigation needed): "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System and "Breath Machine" by Momentary Sound Action – are 009 Sound System and Momentary Sound Action the same artist under different names? (009 Sound System is Alexander Perls only.)
 * User:Eighty5cacao/Musical self-plagiarism (video games)
 * User:Eighty5cacao/Eloi physiology and User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Eloi physiology (fanon)
 * Regarding the above: The Time Traveller observes some Eloi "bathing" in a river (Ch. 5, 10). What exactly does this mean - is there any actual swimming, or is everyone sitting still?
 * http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/03/parasite-eve-tango-and-cash.html (TODO: explain more later once I've actually listened to the songs)
 * stsa-vg-IN Smashing Drive
 * Video game graphics design tradeoffs: Pocky & Rocky 2 and El Viento use solid-colored tiles for some explosions. The SNES version of Sunset Riders uses "superpixels" of 8x4 or 4x8 pixels for some explosions. Also mention the possibility of displaying kanji or hanzi with superpixels in situations where CHR memory and/or CPU time are limited but screen space is no object.
 * Consider making a "discussions to revisit" page, as Tepples has
 * User:Eighty5cacao/misc/HTTPS Everywhere subpages:
 * User:Eighty5cacao/misc/HTTPS Everywhere/feature (feature requests: just a scratchpad; I may properly file tickets later once I get my thoughts down)
 * To go on some page related to Eloi physiology (or possibly another fictional race): Christie Wilcox. "Expensive Organs: Guppies Reveal The Cost Of Big Brains. Scientific American, 2013-01-03. Accessed 2013-01-03. (also Slashdot) (these are about guppies, but I've also heard of an example in some species of bat. This may not scale up to present-day humans - I don't necessarily mean scale in terms of size; there may be other peculiarities to hominid evolution)
 * User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Wi-Fi vs. Ethernet - a mini-rant of sorts inspired by a thread from the NESdev "General Stuff" forum; note that I have some bias as usual...
 * Stop citing IMDb forums on TTM matters, and review all existing links - it looks like they periodically purge old forum threads and/or restrict threads older than a certain age to IMDb Pro members. (The 404 error message doesn't specifically mention the latter, though.)
 * User:Tepples/Allism test: Find sources concerning whether or not the instructions for existing notable subsets of the test explicitly forbid a "rational" response.
 * Once we have a page for general puns and/or coincidences, mention something about Konami's VRC chips vs. a similarly-named line of laser-detection cards by Thorlabs. (Just as with Konami, Thorlabs VRC5 is the odd one out.) Or does this belong on All The Tropes somewhere?

User:Eighty5cacao/misc/copyrobeast
Not sure whether it belongs here specifically, but mention the possibility that YouTube may shut down entirely (cracked.com) under continuing legal pressure (bbc.co.uk). On the other hand, isn't YouTube "too big to fail" in some sense?

User:Eighty5cacao/TODO (this page itself)
Look over the "Unknown" section and move anything that isn't a proper TODO to a separate page (User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Random thoughts?)

Writing style
Note to self: Especially in edit summaries, stop using "wp" as an abbreviation for Wikipedia. DuckDuckGo uses it to mean WordPress. ("en.wp" is a little better but should ultimately be deprecated too.)

Copyright

 * Sloperama: So You Wanna Clone Somebody Else's Game (pay attention to the difference between "No problem" and "No! Problem!")
 * Under Development Law
 * Shmups, Youtube, and Konami - shmups.system11.org forums for general discussion on Content ID, including the automatic vs. manual issue (Tepples has already mentioned this on the NESdev forums)
 * There exists some relevant YouTube policy discussion in these threads (tasvideos.org)
 * Mention something about National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute, but where?
 * http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/05/jay-leno-stole-a-guys-youtube-video-and-then-got-it-banned/ TODO: explain
 * Problems with live streams: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/copyrights-robot-wars-heat-algorithms-block-live-streams-first-and-ask-questions http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/youtube-flags-democrats-convention-video-on-copyright-grounds/

Link rot
Links to gitweb.torproject.org need checking due to site software changes; at least search URLs are definitely broken as-is.

However, there appears to be an "official" copy of the repository on GitHub - this is probably more searchable

Songs that sound alike not otherwise classified

 * This section is for MoS or other policy issues that need extended consideration. For actual drafts of MoS items, see above. For song entries that are dubious, see User:Eighty5cacao/misc/Songs that sound alike (investigation needed).


 * MoS issue, also discussed on the investigation page: How do we define "independent musician"? What do we do about artists who publish most of their material noncommercially? (Define "most.")
 * MoS issue: Is it okay for us to have entries that are already discussed in the external links?
 * Specific example for both of the above: Chrissy - My Slushy vs. Ke$ha - Tik Tok (from That Song Sounds Like; this entry mentions a lawsuit; note that there is a slight mistake in the entry: The game Audition Online is actually of Korean origin. BTW, producer Dr. Luke is mentioned in other entries on the site, though he's obviously not relevant to this one...)

Video gaming not otherwise classified

 * Something about colorblind accessibility in video games, and how FantaVision is a poor example; for that matter, blind accessibility
 * Mention the Famicom game Garfield: A Week of Garfield as an example of mystery-meat navigation