Thread:FishTank/@comment-3361105-20180507225752/@comment-3361105-20180510000451

I half-expected that incompatibility with PIs would be the case. My desire to use alt-text there was more for SEO, as you guessed.

I had, at least, read Tupka's post on this wiki regarding his takeaway from that Town Hall, and it is causing some discussions about how we can improve SEO/reduce system load.

While I've never been a big fan of our gallery pages when we have image categories that serve the same function, the fact that galleries are curated is a positive. We've been talking about significantly limiting the number of images that can appear in one.

That said, when you say there is no option to include alt-text in galleries, do you mean new galleries, regular old mediawiki galleries, or both? I had thought there might have been a way to do it within the older tags - but maybe I was mistaken. Either way, the hope is that limiting the number of images will allow us to add descriptive captions (though, perhaps not as descriptive as your example).

Regarding improving SEO by placing text on the File page of the image - it doesn't seem like our existing image template is working well in this respect. Is burying the description within a page-template preventing it from working altogether (I know it's not as good a practice as just putting text straight on the page). Is there anything we could be doing (i.e. more descriptive wordings in our "File Description" area)? Seems like we give plenty of info, but that none of it serves us well in terms of SEO.