User blog comment:Emitewiki2/A new project!/@comment-3060206-20150618075938

First of all: excuse you; Project Revise went through like 4 iterations, one of which at least proved some success. (Revise 3? 2? I can't remember but it did help "standardise" a lot of wiki articles.) So yeah, calling the Revise project a fail is like giving NOBODY a slap on the face. not like I haven't done that before...

Catty remarks aside, it's especially going to be difficult to implement this project in particular because it involves an action that only admins can carry out (that being renaming files). Well, Template:Move file can probably help with that. You can even make a more specific version of the template if you want. This'll make it a lot more efficient for admins, and at least get the rest of the community involved.

I tested out the proposed renaming convention on my own test wiki, and to my suspicion, forward slashes are not acceptable in filenames. Even if they were, I would oppose using them anyways since they should really only be used in the case of article titles for making subpages. Rather than slashes, use spaces and/or hyphens, eg. Canary - hazard - electric block.png and you should be good to go.

I like the idea of standardising filenames; it makes them easier to index as are infoboxes. For object types of the category "interactive objects", I think that just classifying them as "object" is good enough, as "int-ob" looks kind of goofy and might be more forgettable in its abbreviation. Yeah, something like "character", "hazard", "object", "enemy", "boss", "location", etc.

Here are some more tidbits to consider:


 * Categorising by series or game name? For example, if an object appears in, say, Frost Bite 2 but not Frost Bite, is it going to be filed under "Frost Bite 2 object.png" or "Frost Bite series object.png"? Or is "series" going to be limited to just objects that appear across all series.
 * Are objects going to be filed by their singular or plural form? If I have a picture of a single swinging axe from Frost Bite 2 but the page is under Swinging axes, would it make more sense to name the file after what you see in the picture (swinging axe) or how the page title refers to it (swinging axes)? If I have more than one axe in the picture, does that change the filename?

Also, welcome back! Free time is definitely not free time atm for me lol.