Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-36009152-20190628165631/@comment-36009152-20191115153709

It’s a simple case that you have changed your opinion, and that happens, good! Can post something to then change views right away, it can only be encouraged to share ones thoughts on a matter.

The idea with image gallery pages is to provide a visual overview of events. For example Chapter 1 has a descriptive text account of what happens in a chapter and then manga panels to depict scenarios. These can be the views of a character, their reactions to what is happening in the story and in response to other characters, to the manner which it is all depicted. Images are also valuable for noting the artwork as the manga progresses as well as depictions of background scenery and the world of Seraph of the End of which an image has the advantage over a written account of it.

A good goal for the manga chapters is have them similar to the episode pages. These images spread throughout the text are very effective. They help break up the writing, also working well on mobiles and provide checkpoints so to speak. Seeing an image we know the text at that point in the story is going to concern the happenings around that scene. It’s just we can only use a select few images in the story area, additional images are to be secured in an place where text can be written underneath as in the Chapter 1 image gallery above.

Regarding page views that can come down to the amount of text on them. Pages with solely images on them are seen as blank pages by search engines, hence why people may not be coming across them. Like the Chapter 1 image gallery adding text and links can help with this. Even if they were unpopular, a library book may not be taken out often by people for example, but it is still a vital catalogue of information. Focusing on popular pages can be done, but at the same time the roots of being an all-covering encyclopedia on the series are still vital to keep in mind. Just because one area may not have as many page views as another does not stop the information from being important. If the Seraph of the End manga disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow and all other sites were shut down, this site still has examples of the artwork to share. It’s more about securing content and ensuring it is not lost to time. Seed banks in the artic are not popular, no one knows of them, but preserving key examples remains important.

Regarding what other wikis are doing, yes we should be inspired by what works well. Yet doing or not doing something depending on what another wiki does probably doesn't help anyone, different features work for different wikis. Having said that, both Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia Wikis also have extensive image galleries, here it's just going one coverage area further in documenting manga panels as well.

Agreed nothing should be made for the sake of being made, if it is not important to Seraph of the End there’s not really much point in it being on the wiki. Examples of the source material, visual depictions of the characters, weapons, to information concerning the world… we get the idea XD are also very important though. If people overlook that significance and don’t view the pages as much as others, well it’s not about that at all, the wiki is to be a comprehensive account of the series and has images documented to that end.

Characters predominantly have images for their articles and having these panels present on manga pages as well can tell people which chapter they are from.

There are many areas of development on a wiki, and helping the image related areas is one that is coming along nicely!

Just to note this post also concerned the Pounce!! badge so if new pages are to be made, remember to edit them within the hour of creation for it to count.

That's one view anyway, helping to bring out the best in image gallery pages can only be beneficial to the wiki (provided they have text one them, pages with nothing but images on them actually negatively impact SEO results). Plus they are also another insight into the Seraph of the End series that is so very important.