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Re: Increasing use of duplicate images and illogical names referenced: Suggested solution.
Llamageddon (talk | contribs) m (Added an overview of the intention behind current cat. organisation. Might not be apparent to editors, from individual page category perspective.) |
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== Supercategories and Subcategories == | == Supercategories and Subcategories == | ||
=== Overview === | |||
<small>''I'm giving this its own section on the talk page as a specific overview/mini-guide rather than a typical discussion.''</small> | |||
The foundation for this was the result of a concerted effort by Harakoni to start organising all wiki images into categories for easier searching and uploading by wiki editors. | The foundation for this was the result of a concerted effort by Harakoni to start organising all wiki images into categories for easier searching and uploading by wiki editors. | ||
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An added benefit to all this is that it often makes it a lot easier to reorganise categories without needing to individually edit hundreds of pages (you can just change what supercategory a given subcategory is subordinate to. [[User:Llamageddon|Llamageddon]] ([[User talk:Llamageddon|talk]]) 15:19, 27 September 2023 (CEST) | An added benefit to all this is that it often makes it a lot easier to reorganise categories without needing to individually edit hundreds of pages (you can just change what supercategory a given subcategory is subordinate to. [[User:Llamageddon|Llamageddon]] ([[User talk:Llamageddon|talk]]) 15:19, 27 September 2023 (CEST) | ||
=== Discussion === | |||
== Generic and Shared Images == | |||
I've noticed that a lot of images that are shared between multiple items are being uploaded individually per item as duplicates or shared between items with an illogical name. As a hypothetical example, a book image might be uploaded as 'Book of Dragon Slaying Faded.png' and also be used for the "Book of Cat Healing", using the 'Book of Dragon Slaying.png' as its referenced image. | |||
This is obviously confusing and not very intuitive to editors, and also leads to even more duplicates being uploaded. I read up about this on some MediaWiki help pages and related sites, and redirects for file pages (no longer) have any issues and cause negligible server overhead, just like any other redirect. | |||
I recommended in cases like these (using the above example) that a shared image is moved to a descriptive image page name: 'Book of Dragon Slaying Faded.png' and 'Book of Cat Healing Faded.png' would be added to the wiki as file page redirects to the main generic image page. This would mean that those item pages can still link to intuitively named images, whilst avoiding duplicates or confusing/illogical image names being used for the main shared images. [[User:Llamageddon|Llamageddon]] ([[User talk:Llamageddon|talk]]) 15:51, 27 September 2023 (CEST) | |||