Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-3361105-20180507004541

Tupka217 wrote: This wiki functions pretty broken because it has 2006 framework. The templates are held together by ducttape and chewing gum and run on pure magic.

As mentioned above, if you want to make the #if switch, go ahead.

Correction: I fixed a lot of broken 2006 stuff between 2011 and 2015 with solid coding. I did not fix the Movie or TV templates, because some kind of voodoo evil keeps them broken, despite my best efforts. Further broken things are Wikia/Fandom's fault, for insisting we smoosh their garbage Lua into our templates.

As for galleries:
 * I'm on board with reducing the number of images to a maximum of... at most 50?
 * With that limitation, I downright insist that we increase the resolution of our thumbnails in that gallery to something more like between 200-350px, versus 150px.
 * I had an initiative ages ago to try to include AltText in images on pages so that they would have some SEO-readable info in them. I'm not sure if AltText is still used, but we may be able to write something into the template, or input it manually.
 * larger thumbs = more space for captions, but I feel like captions give a lot of leeway to bad edits, and stupid captions, when really we just want something informative.
 * Let the image categories be more prominent, and shoulder the burden of housing images of characters for the purposes of identification. The galleries should be a showcase. We should not duplicate categories as galleries just for the sake of digging them out of the back end. Send users to the back end instead.
 * With that in mind, only text-free crops, pinups, textless covers allowed (where possible). If a character doesn't have any "showcase" worthy images, they don't get a gallery - they have an image category for that.
 * If we go this route, I can probably write something into the character template to either override the auto-creation of gallery red-links, or make them opt-in instead.
 * My preference, in terms of descriptive filenames, is that they follow conventions (like our cover naming standards) rather than "batman in that one issue, with the hot chick's boobs.gif"
 * Don't think it's worth splitting up galleries into sections. If we limit it, and add captions, sections would be redundant. Byfield said as much. Also, not convinced section titles will help SEO at all.
 * New Galleries: No. - ugly; awkward; not actually galleries.
 * Tabbers: No. - None of know how to write them. They don't work well anyway. Boo.
 * @Koavf: ifexist parsers are "expensive" - wikia/fandom hates them. And, at no point will we be creating a gallery for a character who doesn't already have a character page. The ifexist as a preventative measure for red-linking isn't a viable solution. I already proposed an opt-in/opt-out solution that would be more effective - provided that the Gallery section of the character template isn't buried in Lua, in which case we're fucked, and you've no right to complain until you've learnt the language, and can fix it yourself (as opposed to blindly mucking about) - in which case we would gladly give you access to edit the template, temporarily.