User blog:Drew1200/Image Organization Project

We obviously have the largest archive of the old LMBs here. Even the web archive isn’t as completed as we are. Currently, our user article archive is doing really well. I believe that it’s organized, and well done. But, we have nearly 12,000 images on this wiki. A huge amount of those are screenshots of old profiles. Currently, there’s really no way to find them. We just use them on our archive articles, but those articles are the most update versions we have available. If a user wanted to find an image that is not on an article, then there’s really no way for them to find it except random guesses. This project is an attempt to organize all of these images in a way that would make them easy to find. There are several different steps that need to be completed before this project is completed. This will be quite a project, and will take a lot of time, but there will be a lot of benefits to it.

Step 1
Our first step has already been started. We’ve never categorized images before, but we’ve recently started. For this step, you simply go around and add categories to images. The main images we need categorized are the profiles.

Step 2
This step will take more work. We must individually go around and rename each profile to follow a specific format. For example, if we had an image of my profile while I was an Artisan, it would be: Drew1200_Artisan. It’s a pretty simple format, but it will help users find profiles much easier. If there are more than one image of a user at a single rank, then the format will end like this: Drew1200_Artisan1. There are a couple rules for this, though. 1) The lowest number should go on the image with the lowest post count. The second lowest number should go on the image with the second lowest post count. 2) There must be at least a 1,000 post difference on each image of the same rank. For example, if we have images of a Legend with 26,125 posts, 26,789 posts, and 27,546 posts, then the first and third should stay, and the middle one should be tagged with a speedy delete tag for an admin to delete.

Step 3
We advertise. With all this hard work, and an amazing archive, we have to let our readers and community know how to find it. We’ll simply write on the mainpage about our archive, and link to another page where they can go if they want to know even more about it.

If you want to help us out with the first step, go ahead and check out Klint’s blog. It helps to make the editing more fun.