Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20161109233932/@comment-413936-20161114130902

Bluesonic1 wrote: Considering the lack of community we had then, I get the feeling that our wiki's details were auto-generated because no local admin submitted anything, and it needed to be done. I say this because we also had images at the time that could have been submitted, it doesn't make sense that a local admin would submit a random one like that considering this.

Regarding Bluesonic1's situation, it does seem like more transparency to the system as a whole could be used. Having worked with non-English wikis, I've seen what can occur with a confused admin sincerely trying to fix a problem but with the wrong tools (rabbit trail: that mostly involved accidental formatting changes and removal from VisualEditor, as none use Source, and their attempted fixes making things ever wonkier).

In the least, I think some form of log that local admins can see would be useful. A lot of wikis worked with Special:Promote a long time ago, and I know I've forgotten what was done on the wikis I admin and by whom.

There also seems to be some confusion as to how images are synched - and I do presume that replacing the Wikia-Visualization images isn't the most common occurrence. Presumably, the safest place to make changes is directly under "Edit mobile main page" - just deleting the file will cause the equivalent of an edit war with a bot.

Similarly, I do note that the current Help:Mobile_Main_Page page doesn't mention what files are used or what file is used where/how. That point alone could help local admins - the fact that these files almost always pop up under Special:UnusedFiles does seem to further the confusion.

Possibly the easiest thing at this point, Bluesonic1: send in another Special:Contact message. The underlying point is that you want to make certain that the image is replaced with a more representative image without causing synch issues. Include a link to the file you want instead. That should sort things. Deleting the files is just causing errors.