User blog comment:Kirkburn/Photo gallery launch/@comment-22460-20100326132120

Kirkburn: I sent a bug report to Wikia about it. When you add an image to a gallery, such as on http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/James_Sloyan, the text that shows as the caption is actually the SUBST'd template text, and should not show up like that. If you're going to show anything, show me the text that is _actually_ there as a caption. As in, the WIKI text, not what will replace it when the page is parsed and presented to the user as an HTML page.

The 888th Avatar: Trying to hide the button, it appears that the only way I can get it to not show up is to log in as an anon or stop the page from loading before the community.wikia.com stuff finishes loading. The CSS does nothing.

Also, another bug... clicking on our pictures, the caption gets totally eaten:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Lightbox_photogallery_bug.png

That's from clicking on the 2nd picture in the gallery on the page listed above.

I can see benefits to the picture loading like that, but the problem comes in when pictures are bigger than my screen. The File: page at least scaled the image appropriately to my screen size.

Again, I'd like to agree with Topher208, why are these things being dropped on us with no documentation or warning? Why not give us a bit of notice, tell us what CSS things have been added and changed rather than waiting for us to ask in here and be forced to wait several hours for an answer because it's after the end of the working day?

Telling us in advance and showing us what changes what makes us happy clients. Telling us after and then taking your time to actually document it makes us very annoyed clients.