Project:Navigation Galleries: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:59, 4 February 2019

ProjectInfoBox Galleries for Visual Wiki Navigation

Status:	ongoing (restart of Project:Multi-Photo Imagemaps with a much more practical approach)
Release Date:	2019
Initiator:	Lukas
Team:	who else would like to help?
Materials Used:	photos
Tools Used:	cameras, e.g. DSLR
Software Used:	MediaWiki, (soon) Python
Approx. Cost:	0 €

Let's try to improve visual navigation through this wiki, but in a much easier way than originally tried with Project:Multi-Photo Imagemaps!

Imagemaps of multiple photos did solve some problems, but are still too hard to modify for anyone really doing it - you'd have to download the original GIMP files, add a new photo (or better several ones so it would still look okay), upload everything again, overhaul the embedding code, ...blah.

Instead, let's use the photos we already have (e.g. in InfoBoxes) in automatable "Navigation Galleries"!

Manual Assembly

We already had a few such navigation galleries before "opening" this project, e.g. disambiguation pages or Lukas' project overview.

It's definitely possible and not too difficult to make the galleries by hand in slowly evolving cases like these!

Simply use the gallery syntax and make sure you include a link to the page you want to direct readers to, so they don't just see the page with photo information:

<gallery mode=packed-hover heights=150 caption="optional 'headline' - enter what you want">
File:example1.JPG|link=[[Example Tool]]|here's room for a photo-specific caption...
File:example2.JPG|link=[[Different Example Tool]]|...and here you put the next photo's caption!
</gallery>

The exact formatting here is just an example of course, whatever works will surely be appreciated by the next page visitor!

Advantages of the manual approach are mainly A) ease of use (requires nothing but a wiki account) and B) the flexibility to assemble the gallery out of any photos and captions you like.

Pages in Need

(copied from [[Project:Multi-Photo Imagemaps - probably still up to date & useful though)

Here are some of our pages where such a gallery would be nice (feel free to add more):

Category:Engineered Woods
Category:Haberdashery
Material:Nuts - lock nuts, hex nuts, wing nuts...
Category:Bits - especially highlighting differences between different drill bits and end mills
Category:Joinery - demo pieces or sketches of various woodworking joints
Material:Crimps - much easier to go by picture than (interchangeably used) names - page doesn't exist yet
Pliers
perhaps the projects on your user page?
<what else?>

Automated Assembly

It would be awesome to develop a script (perhaps using Martin's "wikicrawler" for our QR code printouts as a starting point) that automatically goes through certain wiki pages and gives out the wiki code for a large navigation gallery when you runs it.

A great example would be the "Project:" namespace, which is quickly filling up with awesome members' projects that are unfortunately not very visible yet. In general, many namespaces or categories could benefit from such a possibility!

<<more thoughts & "issue" about this to follow soon!>>

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 It's definitely possible and not too difficult to make the galleries by hand in slowly evolving cases like these!
-Simply use the [[gallery]] syntax and make sure you include a link to the page you want to direct readers to, so they don't just see the page with photo information:
+Simply use the [[gallery]] syntax and make sure you '''include a link to the page you want to direct readers to''', so they don't just see the page with photo information:
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 The exact formatting here is just an example of course, whatever works will surely be appreciated by the next page visitor!
+Advantages of the manual approach are mainly A) ease of use (requires nothing but a wiki account) and B) the flexibility to assemble the gallery out of any photos and captions you like.
 === Pages in Need ===