User blog:Eyegirl/follow up on gallery page proposals + proposed layout example

i posted a blog about this in january, and im doing it again now as i rewrote this a lot, and i also honestly just didnt want to post on the discussion page because its filled with memes or fighting. i hope it gets some outreach here for the record im still gathering images across pages to put on the character galleries! id like to have a better layout for gallery pages first, and then revamp the main existing ones over time if i can

the biggest change is that my proposed layout is shown off in User:Eyegirl/Sandbox, where i copied red's gallery page, and edited it here with my proposed changes. see them in the sandbox, read on to see what the changes are

my biggest issue is the collapsible gallery templates, seen in Red/Gallery and Angry Birds Dream Blast/Gallery, for example. my opinion is that while the template absolutely has its uses on non-gallery pages like Collaboration where these galleries are not the main point of the pages, it is completlely pointless on gallery pages. it doesnt save any resources loading because of how wikia/fandom loads images, and it just wastes your time and clicks. gallery pages were intended for viewing images, and having to open each little gallery section is really cumbersome. sometimes you open one of these, only to see a singular image, or even none at all (see 2020s sprites section on red's gallery). my proposal is to entirely just get rid of them on gallery pages as they are useless there

its not as big of an issue, but another thing id like to get rid of is the decade separation. but i can tell this was inspired by sonic news network, and the decade separation makes sense there as sonic has been around for a while, but angry birds hasnt! its only been around for 12 years. i dont think it realy has a point being here. most of the images will just end up being in the 2010s sections its fine if it has to be kept (the collapsible gallery templates are a much bigger issue), but ideally thats also done away with

my proposed layout for character gallery pages
for consistency. this is partly inspired by the layout on super mario wiki (see https://www.mariowiki.com/Gallery:Iggy_Koopa for example), with some other stuff kept as is i also have no proposed layouts for non-character gallery pages; i think these seem to be fine as is an example is, again, in User:Eyegirl/Sandbox

-Concept art (renamed "Development images" sections. we could have concept art for everything here, ranging from ab toons to ab evolution)

-Artwork --Games (for game artwork with just the character isolated) ---Scenes (for game artwork with backgrounds and stuff) --Animated series (renamed "TV Shows" sections; im pretty sure most of these werent intended to be on tv really) ---Angry Birds Toons ---[if necessary, sections for other animated series like slingshot stories etc] --Movies --Miscellaneous artwork (merge with "Promotional" on red's gallery) ---Posters ---[other sections that could fit here like loading screens]

-Sprites and models

-Screenshots (renamed "In Game" sections. some images will have to be moved out of it into the sprites section) --Game screenshots --Animations (trailer screenshots go in here instead of a subsection of this section) ---Angry Birds Toons (link character toons gallery pages here as well) ---[sections for other animations like summer madness etc] --Movies

-Merchandise --Classic --Angry Birds Toons --Movies --Other (if neccessary, considering we have summer madness merch for example)

-Miscellaneous (comics, scans, videos, that one "Ambassador of Climate Change" section on red's gallery page, etc. kind of nebulous but its stuff that doesnt fit in anything else)

-Videos

other changes
- can i just clean up Angry Birds 2/Gallery? the artwork section is bloated because its filled with generic toons artwork, most of which im willing to bet didnt appear anywhere in the game. i think this should be reserved for artwork that originated in angry birds 2 itself, and it shouldnt have every single toons artwork also being dumped into it

- what should be done about a lot of character gallery pages that are not on the gallery navbox? logically, you would want to put them in there, but sometimes these pages are for really minor stuff like Eva/Gallery and Female White Bird/Gallery. would we want a minor character from the first movie, or a character that only appeared in some artwork for a singular seasons episode, sorted in with the main characters of the series? what do we do about that? do we sort the movie characters in with every other bird/pig or create a separate subsection for them?

- why is File:72E9830A-2C1A-47A6-AD6B-35827E24D84E.jpeg on matilda and mighty eagle's gallery pages? the grey bird has nothing to do with them and should just be moved to another page entirely, like the page documenting early content of angry birds classic

- i see the piggy tales gallery has a title cards section. how would that work for toons and stella and whatever else has them? you could access their title cards through their lists of episodes, but would it be useful to also have the title cards be available in their gallery or will it be redundant?

- regarding toons galleries (which i proposed should be linked on the characters' main gallery pages), what about counting episode title cards for the toons galleries? for example, put the title card for shrub it in on the blues and bomb's toons season 1 galleries, alongside the actual screenshots from the episode. it could be nice to have!

- bubbles should only have one toons gallery page. splitting it into one each per season, like with other characters, doesnt make sense for bubbles as he only got one episode per season

of course the toons character galleries need a lot of work too. most of them have little to nothing for season 1 and 3. these pages are greatly underutilized but could be pretty useful! i could work on some myself too when i have the time