User blog:Deleca7755/Changes of September 2022



This may as well say Changes of October.



What's new? We've got some moderate changes being announced today!

New policies on Images/Files After lots of overthinking and 2 months of procrastinating after getting burnt out, Introducing; actually licensing Images.

As of now, every file has a copyright/license tag on It. This will be an enforced thing now, If you call politely correcting other people's edits enforcement. But you will also not be able to upload something without selecting a license first.

Copyright Is big and scary, so I've written another blog post trying to dumb down the concept some to maybe help people better understand how to license Images: User blog:Deleca7755/Overview of Copyright. The Manual of Style has had Its section on files split Into File Policy. Each license tag and when they should be used Is found under "Image Tags" on this new page.

Regarding personal Images, they have a section on that page as well. They are still allowed, and In fact even some wikis part of NIWA allow personal Images. What users don't often grasp at first Is that you actually shouldn't upload random whatever. There's been cases of people uploading things and just not using them too. With guidelines for files being redefined, we can now reference them should problematic files need to be dealt with.

Very little wikis go out of their way to bother with copyright and licensing because Fandom does nothing to enforce It. That doesn't mean It's a good thing. This was just necessary, and It's not something you want to sleep on either. It's similar to the categorization of Images. It probably seems pointless, but It's for the quality of the wiki.

Community pages Shoutouts to the Fandom staff member who answered my ticket like lightning—we now have a neat custom namespace. It Is named "Community", and will be used to organize community pages better. Not every page In the Category:Community category, but articles that are based on subjective community consensus or not based on official in-game content.

The list of articles moved to the new namespace (underlined articles have the original title as a redirect):
 * Community:PMU Playerbase
 * Community:Item Farming
 * Community:Market Price of Items
 * Community:Tips from Players
 * Community:PMU 5 Players
 * Community:PMU 6 Players
 * Community:PMU 7 Players
 * Community:Old Guilds
 * Community:PMU 7 Guilds ( new page split from Guilds )
 * Community:Training Locations
 * Community:Records
 * Community:Roleplaying

This also includes every guild page. None of them will have redirects left behind.  What do you want from me In this section? I spent 3 days licensing 300 personal Images, not to mention the time I spent creating the templates when I originally started a few months ago, finding a way to mass apply them, categorizing Images so that It would be easier, researching and finding sources of Images.

Happy Octember.

 I'm with stu   pid  04:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)