Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-26384327-20160306163014/@comment-24668482-20160306171419

Hi AAA,

As far as I can tell the List of Collection Items page is completed, as unless I am missing something there are no collections from the game represented there.

If it is the List of Collection Items with Pictures page that you are refering to, then please read my conversation with JulietEcho about this to get the full reasoning behind the slow build of that page. This is one project that I never really wanted to do, but have given into demand. People seem to want it, so its there and will eventually be finished. But I actually don't know what the point of the finished page would be, since it would be no different than searching the collection screen in the game itself. Yes, searching on computers would be easier, but the vast majority of visitors here use mobile devices so won't get the benefit, but they will feel the issue of that page loading (and the awfulness that is tables on the moibile version of this site). It is not the size of the images that is an issue, but the number of requests to the server to request the images as the page loads considering the amount of them. In the end, the original List of Collection Items would be easier to use and mine information from, albeit image free. And I get that people want to scan for the images, but am not sure that page will ever be the solution they want.

Anyway, the page load thing isn't the problem, and neither is sourcing the images, it is managing the thousands of images that would have to be uploaded to the wiki. They cannot just be thrown up, but need to be categorised and given descriptions and given copyright information. This is why I do it 10 collections at a time. Uploading the 60 images doesn't take too long (but is a pain, even when uploading 20 at a time using the multiple file upload function), and adding the 70 images (to include rewards image, which would already be uploaded) to the page really takes no time at all. But adding all the information and categories to the 60 images then takes a long time. I go into more detail with examples when talking to JulietEcho in the linked thread above, but essentially someone else uploading 1000 files and completing the table in one day, but not organising and taking care of the images would not save me time but rather add a gigantic workload to me. I do it in bitesize and manageable chunks for a reason, as tidying up afterwards rather than doing it as you go would be much more work.

It is also worth remembering that all images of the game belong to G5/Mytona (it does not matter you screen shot them yourself, it is still their property you are uploading). They would be in their rights to demand all images of their property are removed from this site, so I choose to thread carefully with how much and how I add images here.