Help needed: Improving our "Standard Format for Verse Pages" page

[Antvasima]

Hello.

As you can all see, the "Hotlinking images" section of our Standard Format for Verse Pages page is severely outdated, and needs to be replaced with a section that explains how we currently usually create image galleries.

We have a brief section about this in our Standard Format for Character Profiles page, that could be used as a template, but it would need to be expanded with more information about our standard settings.

Help would be very appreciated.

Also, just a note that as far as I have understood, the Fandom staff is trying to make the old code for our galleries work properly again.

 

[Antvasima]

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[Mr. Bambu]

I'd do so but as mentioned in another thread, I'm not the most technically advanced individual, which I suspect would leave any explanations written by me lacking. So... consider this acknowledgement of the thread, I'm not ignoring it, but I am unfortunately ill equipped to assist.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. No problem. Thanks anyway.

 

[KLOL506]

I have no idea what hotlinking means nor do I have any experience in doing galleries (I only copypaste from accepted galleries) so I really can't help here.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, we need to replace the "hotlinking" section with a gallery creation explanations section.

 

[Crabwhale]

Well beyond just informing them of the basic ass <gallery> </gallery>, a new section about verse galleries would also want to go into some of the necessities of one, like width, orientation, spacing, etc.

Tangential to this thread but I'd also like to mention we have a somewhat annoying problem as a wiki, in that our caption text color and border color do not work. Like, I've tried numerous times but the captions just end up with the same color as the caption of the gallery above them, and NoGround when he was still helping us informed me it was a coding issue iirc.

I know it sounds very minor but it's extremely annoying to anyone who wants to customize galleries to any extent for their verse.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, Fandom has previously provided the following explanations page that we can link to for information, and I think that they are currently working on fixing the gallery code system so it works mostly properly again.

https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Galleries,_Slideshows,_and_Sliders/wikitext

 

[DemonGodMitchAubin]

I don’t know how to fix this stuff technically

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. I need somebody who knows how to write verse page image galleries to write a basic instruction.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

I'm not too knowledgeable on what "Hotlinking images" mean. But I will mention that showing a list of characters is something I have felt might need a main format. And based on several verses I'm familiar with, this seems like the preferred format for the list of characters on each verse look like.

<gallery captionalign="center" widths="146" orientation="portrait" captionposition="within" captionsize="large" bordercolor="#000000" bordersize="large" spacing="small" captiontextcolor="#ffffff" navigation="true" columns="dynamic">
File:(Name of specific png or jpg image)|(Specific name of the character goes here)|link=(Name of wiki page for said character goes here)
</gallery>

This shows an example of how it looks with said format. Wasn't sure if that's what's being asked in the OP, but I believe this is something that would be helpful on the note.

 

[KLOL506]

BTW, I have an issue regarding those slideshows, where you click arrows to proceed to the next picture

I can't seem to be able to click on the main photo itself if I want to save it for some reason, it refuses to take me to the image's main page to be able to save it.

 

[Antvasima]

Medeus:

Thank you. That is probably going to be helpful for our work here.

KLOL506:

The slideshow galleries display is something that Fandom is currently working on.

 

[Elizhaa]

I am not really familiar with this editing topic but I think following a format like Medeus posted above could work.

 

[Antvasima]

So is somebody willing to write a draft for this, preferably in a wiki sandbox page?

 

[Antvasima]

We basically just need you to write a galleries standard format example, patterned after existing verse page examples, with a link to Fandom's standard instructions page for this, along with another link to an external hex colour code explanation page. That is all. Is nobody in the staff really willing to handle this? It is very important for our wiki structure.

 

[Antvasima]

@Bobsican @Just_a_Random_Butler

Are either of you experienced with creating verse page galleries?

 

[Bobsican]

I'm afraid I'm not too knowledgeable on verse page galleries, my apologies.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. No problem. Are there any members who are experienced in this area that somebody here can recommend me to ask instead?

 

[Bobsican]

Formatting issues tend to be within the area of Content Moderators, so I would suggest contacting this section of the staff.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, I already sent a notification to them.

 

[Antvasima]

Given that our image galleries are back to normal now, I would still greatly appreciate help from our community with solving this problem.

 

[Damage3245]

I'll try and get this done tomorrow.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you. It is very appreciated.

 

[Damage3245]

We basically just need you to write a galleries standard format example, patterned after existing verse page examples, with a link to Fandom's standard instructions page for this, along with another link to an external hex colour code explanation page. That is all. Is nobody in the staff really willing to handle this? It is very important for our wiki structure.

Going off of what DDM posted above, here is an elaborated example of what we could put in.

Hotlinking Images​

Here is an example of coding for the images:

<gallery captionalign="center" widths="146" orientation="portrait" captionposition="within" captionsize="large" bordercolor="#000000" bordersize="large" spacing="small" captiontextcolor="#ffffff" navigation="true" columns="dynamic">
File:(Name of specific png or jpg image)|(Specific name of the first character goes here)|link=(Name of wiki page for said character goes here)
File:(Name of specific png or jpg image)|(Specific name of the second character goes here)|link=(Name of wiki page for said character goes here)
Etc.
</gallery>

More information and modifiers for galleries can be found on the Community Wiki page; Help:Galleries, Slideshows, and Sliders.

Hex codes for the border color and caption text color can be altered, and finding specific hex codes can be done on this website.

Here is an example of the code in practice:

<gallery captionalign="center" widths="146" orientation="portrait" captionposition="within" captionsize="large" bordercolor="#000000" bordersize="large" spacing="small" captiontextcolor="#ffffff" navigation="true" columns="dynamic">
File:FELIX.jpg|Felix|link=Felix (Golden Sun)
File:Jenna.jpg|Jenna|link=Jenna (Golden Sun)
File:SHEBA.jpg|Sheba|link=Sheba
</gallery>

And the gallery in action can be seen here.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you very much for the help. It is greatly appreciated. That seems fine to apply to me.

 

[Antvasima]

You likely need to use <nowiki></nowiki> commands to show the code in the wiki though.

 

[Antvasima]

Has this revision been applied now?

 

[Damage3245]

I've added it in to the page but using "NoWiki" on the gallety code has changed its appearance.

May need to replace it with a screenshot of the code.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you very much for the help. It is very appreciated.

Perhaps you can copy the formatting used for the gray box sections of the following page to properly showcase the required code instead?

Standard Format for Character Profiles

When there are multiple versions of a character that are distinct enough to be split into several profiles, whether it is due to the length and complexity of the page or versions from different mediums, then the multiple pages that are created as a result of this have to be linked by a tabber...

vsbattles.fandom.com

 

[Damage3245]

Okay, added that in.

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you. It mostly seems good to me now.

However, shouldn't the contents of the image galleries section be inserted into the characters section instead?

Standard Format for Verse Pages

Insert a picture of the Verse at the very top, just above the Summary section. For pictures that are wider horizontally, the alignment is to the center, and the maximum size is 590px, in order to fit in tablet screens. For pictures that are longer vertically, or are of similar size in both...

vsbattles.fandom.com

 

[Antvasima]

Thank you. It mostly seems good to me now.

However, shouldn't the contents of the image galleries section be inserted into the characters section instead?

Standard Format for Verse Pages

Insert a picture of the Verse at the very top, just above the Summary section. For pictures that are wider horizontally, the alignment is to the center, and the maximum size is 590px, in order to fit in tablet screens. For pictures that are longer vertically, or are of similar size in both...

vsbattles.fandom.com

@Damage3245

I would appreciate your further help with this.

 

[Damage3245]

Do you mean move it up and make it a subheading under the Characters heading?

 

[Antvasima]

Yes. That is where the vast amount of all galleries in verse pages are placed in practice.

 

[Damage3245]

Okay, I've updated it. This can probably be closed now.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Thank you for helping out.