User blog:Eyegirl/some lengthy opinions and suggestions about gallery pages on this wiki

i dont know if it goes here or not but??? i hope this works? hello i use gallery pages a lot (you may have noticed i edited some of them a lot already) and i have some Thoughts on how the newer/more reworked ones are designed. for example Red/Gallery, Angry Birds Reloaded/Gallery and Wood/Gallery. first off i think theyre generally well done! but i have some issues which i will discuss here i can tell that the format of the newer gallery pages is inspired by sonic retro. and the ones on sonic retro look good! however i dont think this format works as well on the angry birds wiki, and it can get kind of cumbersome here

my biggest issue is that i think collapsing galleries into little windows/sections you have to open each time does no good on gallery pages. it does make sense within a larger page like Collaboration, and thus the template should absolutely remain there for that purpose, but if its specifically in a gallery page it just wastes your time and button presses. and i dont think it helps much with image loading because wikia (i mean fandom) is already set up to only load images you scrolled to for example, chuck's gallery is way easier to use than red's gallery, because it doesnt have the little collapsible gallery templates. i can just scroll through the page and look for whatever i may need, instead of having to click to open each little gallery section, which is seriously kind of annoying to deal with!

not as big of an issue, but splitting artwork and sprites in the character gallery pages by decades... works well enough for sonic since sonic has been going on for a few decades, but angry birds has only been around for a little over one decade and this isnt really worth doing if most of the artwork or sprites is gonna end up in the 2010s section anyways. its just not necessary

overall i like the format! but i dont like having to click so much just to view all the images on a gallery page, which was already intended to be for viewing images so there is just no point collapsing the sections there, in my opinion. what do you staff think?

some other suggestions about specific gallery pages
- not a suggestion, but on the topic of putting missing images into articles. im working on it! ive been compiling filenames to the images into a txt file and will be putting them into the gallery pages en masse at some point. i currently have 30 images to be added for red alone

- The Blues/Gallery just pulls from several "the blues/gallery/something something" kind of pages, which results in formatting on the actual the blues/gallery page breaking (leading to all the images lining up in a singular column for whatever reason, with broken captions). it would be better if all the subsections were properly merged into one page. i dont want to do it myself because it seems to be kind of a Big task that i dont want to mess up and would probably involve changing those subpages entirely (like making them into redirects after merging them all into the main gallery pag), so id prefer to leave it to staff if possible

- a bunch of characters have toons gallery pages. shouldnt these be linked on their main gallery pages too? like with something like "See also: character/toons gallery" under the toons section of their gallery page. a toons screenshots section isnt present on reds current gallery page though. maybe it should be added back? i dont see any harm in it being there, especially if it also links to his toons gallery also 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! of course the toons character galleries need a lot of work too. most of them dont seem to even have anything for season 1, or they're really unfinished. these pages are greatly underutilized but could be pretty useful!

- speaking of which i see the piggy tales gallery has a title cards section, which would actually be really useful to have on the toons and stella pages as well! they would be more convenient to access there than through the "list of [series] episodes" pages

- about the gallery navbox. should we turn the "TV Shows" section into something like "Animations" and then put the galleries for both the movies in there? as of now theyre not linked anywhere on the navbox. you can split up the animations section into TV Shows and Movies too additionally, what should we do about the multiple movie characters that have gallery pages that also are not linked in the navbox? like Eva/Gallery. logically they should be linked in the characters section, but theyre mostly pretty much background characters from the movies so they would feel out of place? maybe the characters section should be a little reorganized in order to work also i think the characters should be sorted by their debut date instead of the vague sorting we have currently that kind of makes sense but is still vague. if we sort it by date itd actually match up with the birds and allies and pigs/enemies navboxes somewhat (but they shouldnt get sectioned off by game like those navboxes. just sorted)