Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-3361105-20180510013104

So, based on my recent interactions with FishTank and his responses to Tupka's questions on the Town Hall post, our separate-page galleries are essentially useless pages, even with a serious overhaul. I'm not 100% convinced of that, to the extent that I think people who use the site and understand its navigation do use it to view galleries. However, I do also think that the Batman gallery, for example, is not one of those. Because it is too damn big, and the thumbnails are too damn small.

Further more, in terms of SEO, we are limited to descriptive text-sections (not currently part of our gallery template's structure), and captions - which we typically do not include, or use templates like cid for cover galleries.

So, rather than inserting galleries into articles, which isn't the worst thing we could do, but isn't a thing I want to do, I recommend highly curated gallery pages, with sections of text that state "this is the image gallery for character X" with some kind of brief description. And then larger-sized thumbnails and descriptive (within reason) captions in the gallery gallery structure.

Furthermore, I'm told that the best place to improve the SEO on individual images (which is a related goal, here, I think), the best way to do this is to modify the image template so that it has a "Fair Use" field, where the Fair Use information that currently goes in the description field goes, and have that display at the bottom of the page along with DC Copyright in the notes section. Then, we'll have to use a bot to change all of the "Description" fields in images to "Fair Use", and then (here comes the awful part), add the Description field back in to every image template so that the Body-text of the article can be used for a description of the content of the image - which we may be able to automate in the absence of input.

Thoughts?