Working on a private project seems to always provoke a new one; another thing I noticed working on project All Who Are Born Must Die was the clumsiness of the use of images in the Year-pages. Some years would have pictures and some not. If present, pictures were sometimes scattered all over the place. Thumnails linking to a person's bio would have different sizes between Years and even between sections. It was a mess.
Although the 5th pillar of Wikipedia is that it has no firm rules I deemed it necessary to introduce some kind of standardization to the use of images in Year-pages.
As a preliminary starting point I chose 1500 AD. Before that Year-pages very often just do not have sufficient entries to warrant decoration.
Based on how images were mostly used I established a set of simple rules to make the look & feel of the Year-pages more consistent and appealing. As I was progressing I discovered one final thing: when you insert a thumnail at the top of the article (above the first section) it will be displayed better in the
Wikipedia app on a mobile device/tablet. The image is shown as you are searching for a specific year and it is also displayed nicely at the top of the article. Requirement seems to be that the thumnail may not be resized (f.i.110px
); if omitted the default thumbnail width is used (tested on
Android only).
Here are the rules I apply when illustrating a year:
[[File:A|thumb|right|[[B]]: [[C]]]]
{{C1* year in topic}}
== Events ==
. F.i. see
1631.[[File:A|thumb|right|110px|[[B]]]]
== Births ==
. From 1800 onwards this rule does not apply.
Bio-images should placed at the top of the Births- and Deaths- (sub)sections. Exception: period 1700 – 1789. Reason: this period already has a lot of Births- and Deaths entries but it does not contain any subsections yet like January–March.
Following picture shows my progress.
On 29 September 2018 I declared the project as completed. Great success!
Working on a private project seems to always provoke a new one; another thing I noticed working on project All Who Are Born Must Die was the clumsiness of the use of images in the Year-pages. Some years would have pictures and some not. If present, pictures were sometimes scattered all over the place. Thumnails linking to a person's bio would have different sizes between Years and even between sections. It was a mess.
Although the 5th pillar of Wikipedia is that it has no firm rules I deemed it necessary to introduce some kind of standardization to the use of images in Year-pages.
As a preliminary starting point I chose 1500 AD. Before that Year-pages very often just do not have sufficient entries to warrant decoration.
Based on how images were mostly used I established a set of simple rules to make the look & feel of the Year-pages more consistent and appealing. As I was progressing I discovered one final thing: when you insert a thumnail at the top of the article (above the first section) it will be displayed better in the
Wikipedia app on a mobile device/tablet. The image is shown as you are searching for a specific year and it is also displayed nicely at the top of the article. Requirement seems to be that the thumnail may not be resized (f.i.110px
); if omitted the default thumbnail width is used (tested on
Android only).
Here are the rules I apply when illustrating a year:
[[File:A|thumb|right|[[B]]: [[C]]]]
{{C1* year in topic}}
== Events ==
. F.i. see
1631.[[File:A|thumb|right|110px|[[B]]]]
== Births ==
. From 1800 onwards this rule does not apply.
Bio-images should placed at the top of the Births- and Deaths- (sub)sections. Exception: period 1700 – 1789. Reason: this period already has a lot of Births- and Deaths entries but it does not contain any subsections yet like January–March.
Following picture shows my progress.
On 29 September 2018 I declared the project as completed. Great success!