User blog:SamwiseFilmore/Item Icons for the Wiki

Here I go on another big speech about a change to Image standards on the wiki. If you don't understand something in the blog post, please ask in the comments. We want as many users as possible to understand how these things work.

What Change?
Recently, Sinthorion posted a thread about image rendering, specifically, icon zooming. There is more detail on that thread, but basically, the CSS prevents interpolation on images, so instead of looking like this:



when the wiki zooms a 16 pixel icon, it looks like this:



This is actually a 16 pixel icon that is zoomed by the code in this blog. It's a great bit of code, but there are implications.

What Implications?
The way our icon system is organized right now, we have a lot of icons that were scaled externally using photoshop, GIMP, or Paint.NET, and then uploaded. These images don't zoom nicely under any circumstances, while the 16 pixel ones do. If there were only icons that had been zoomed, then we would only have to upload new versions of the same filesnames that are used in the mod. Unfortunately, we've been telling people to name the scaled images with a 150 or 100 tacked on to the filename. Now that we only need the 16 pixel icons, we need images with filenames without the 150, we need to remove them all. This is a massive amount of work. I've been attempting to get some of it done, but I could really use a hand.

Help Me Now! :P
Now, regular users, I know you can't do much, but you can delete 3 pages a day, and that applies to images. I would ask that every user that understands enough of how wikia does it's image be very kind to help us by renaming 3 pages, or deleting three images a day. It would also be super helpful if you went through files that were named with 150, and making sure there isn't a duplicate somewhere (Special:Upload should give you a warning), then replace those scaled images with 16 pixel icons, then we staff can come in and rename. Anyone can help, even in a small way, and it will make a huge difference, if everyone just does a bit.

Issues
Another issue we have is that the new mobile friendly infoboxes won't zoom our images. Sinth couldn't make them do it, so I posted a message on Community central, and then a bug report strait to wikia dev. Hopefully the issue should be resolved soon.

Thanks for reading, please vote in the poll. Again, if you didn't undestand anything in this blog, or if you need clarification on what to do, please comment.

 SamwiseFilmore (Admin) (Fill My Mailbox)

Images? Yes No I'll Start Renaming, Re-uploading, Etc. I'll do everything wrong