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At the moment our [[MediaWiki:Community-corner]] says users should add all images to [[:Category:Images|Images]] though this conflicts with the description in the category itself: ''Please place images in subcategories only. Images should be in at least two subcategories, one by license (using a license template) and one by content''. In my opinion the images category should only be used for "I don't know where else to put it images" which can then be sorted later. What are your thoughts? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 16:26, July 20, 2010 (UTC)
Changed the community corner. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 21:55, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
===Include categories in license dropdown===
A kind user pointed me to [[:w:c:doom:Special:Upload|The Doom Wiki]] where you can see they have an expanded license dropdown, which puts the images in categories too. I think we should adopt that. Here's their [http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses MediaWiki:Licenses]. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 19:12, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
Done :) '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 21:55, August 25, 2010 (UTC)
===Screenshots categories===
Personally I don't quite like how screenshots from the game are handled. In my opinion there's a huge difference between promotional shots released before the game is released and screenshots submitted by users after release. I suggest we make a promotional images category for each game, where needed of course, (eg. Category:Promotional images/Fast Lane Stuff), maybe Category:Renders/Fast Lane Stuff) as well. That just leaves screencaps from videos. Screenshots from the game would still be in 'Sims 3 snapshots' for example.
Be sure to check out [[Help:Categorizing images]]. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 11:11, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
== Tags ==
I've often thought about how we can improve the way users find images on The Sims Wiki. The 'add picture' button only searches filenames. Renaming filenames to include all possible keywords is too big a hassle and will leave of with many redirects, which is bad all around. Current image categories are also quite limited. Many images only fit one category: 'sims 3 snapshots' as an example. I was thinking of making tags similar to flikr, photobucket and many other image sites. I contacted Wikia for the possibility of adding new stuff to the default layout of file pages, but that is not possible. My solution is then to add a bunch of new categories prefixed with Tag. Category:Tag:Party for example. All the tags would be sorted in a Images -> Tags category.
As an example, a sims 3 snapshot of a party where two sims are fighting, one of them a ghost, the tags could be: sims 3, party, ghost, fighting. People will then be able to browse the tag categories for similar images of just "search" for pictures of sims fighting if they need one.
Implementing this would require us to create a master tag category: 'Category:Tags' and several categories for each tag, but once it has been set up, it will greatly improve the way you can find images here.
What are your thoughts on this? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 20:25, July 24, 2010 (UTC)
A dream scenario would be to have this in place before [[FLS]] comes out. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 02:50, July 30, 2010 (UTC)
===Tags as shown on image pages===
I think I had a minor epiphany about tags. What if we set all tag categories as hidden, then they wouldn't show in the categories field (unless you enable it in your settings) and add a template to the bottom of all images, which lists all categories, pre-fixed with Tag? '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 15:50, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
:This is technically doable with DPL, but I've been advised against it since it'll put a lot of strain on the server. '''[[User:Duskey|Duskey]]'''<small>([[User_talk:Duskey|<span style="color:green;">talk</span>]])</small> 19:15, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
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