Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-25531733-20141225235327/@comment-24668482-20141228125419

As I said, it is fine to create something that people with the access will prefer, as long as it is in addition to and not a replacement for the written text version that will always be accessible to everyone. SS players come from different walks of life, and not all will be able to access documents or JavaScript. That's not to suggest to ignore those who can, just I think it is important not to leave anyone out. Freely accessible information is the goal here. There are plenty of closed groups about the game that cater to smaller groups of privileged players, the last thing I want is for this place to turn into one.

That being said, Pictures could easily be added, the big job would be at the beginning, making a category just for cropped images that people would want to use over and over (thumbnails of combining elements etc.). It's not a hard thing to do, just time consuming, but once it is done it is done. I already plan to do it for the images of items you search for within the pictures themselves as that is a frequent enough request here, and the zoom has improved enough with recent updates that hopefully they won't be as pixelated anymore.

A picture only page would run into issues with searchability, which is why you would need a database instead. Which is fine, just needs to be separate to the current lists so they could still be used by those that need them.

There is one way to maybe do it within the wiki, I'll be looking into the coding for a different reason when I get back, but the idea would be to basically build an interactive map of collections instead of table. I'll have to look into it (and determine how much functionality can be added) but that might help get around the fact that pictures won't lend themselves to searching and there are hundreds of collections at this point.