Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-3361105-20180507212609

Koavf wrote: Unfortunately, this is not true and I have gotten directly contradictory instructions from the same admin regarding when and how to use alt text. If you are referring to this, then refer to the forthcoming message on your wall.

Edit: Actually, I think we should "store" the alt text at the file itself and just have a bot that inserts it everywhere that the file is included or transcluded. That reduces overhead substantially.

On the face of it, that sounds like a good idea, but I don't know of any way to make it happen, with a bot or otherwise. The only way that I know of that would theoretically make it possible (dynamic page linking) wouldn't work (for reasons too elaborate to go on and on about here), and would be even more "expensive" than ifexists and switches. Ultimately, it would just be easier to manually write it on the gallery pages, and let the other page-templates automate it.