Forum:Gallery not working properly

Please comment at User blog:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries, before commenting below. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:19 AM PST 18 Jul 2010


 * Latest news from comments to the blog above
 * Kirkburn 08:12, 21 July 2010
 * Morning! It's Wednesday, and that means code release day - the stronger height restriction (which will help improve the general neatness of galleries) and a couple of bugs should be fixed today. Edit: now live!
 * Everyone who had gallery problems may want to refresh their galleries and give feedback at the blog again. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 8:26 AM PST 21 Jul 2010

As wikia are going to be releasing the new gallery customisation feature soon, I am looking forward to that, but I have been having a problem with the gallery's look. I'd imagine it's because of the customise your gallery feature, but has anybody else been having a problem. It just doesn't seem to be showing all images at the same size and looks bad. Has anyone else been having the problem?

Gourleyo Visit my talk! 16:17, July 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you have a link to a page with a gallery that has this problem? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:45 AM PST 14 Jul 2010


 * The problem of the images in galleries not all being the same height is probably caused by recent changes by Wikia.
 * For example... This is what galleries on BioShock Wiki currently look like: w:c:bioshock:Eleanor_Lamb
 * This is what they used to look like: (Google cached page)
 * The good news is that it ought to be a temporary problem... ~ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 19:37, July 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * I thought the Wikia  was a superset of the one used on Wikipedia: wikipedia:Wikipedia:Gallery. The Wikipedia version says you can use a   attribute, but the Wikia w:c:help:Help:Galleries_and_slideshows/wikitext doesn't seem to mention it. It may still work.
 * From what I can tell, w:c:bioshock:Eleanor_Lamb is doing what it's supposed to do. The previous cached version may have used . --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 3:44 PM PST 14 Jul 2010
 * Nevermind the thing I said about . I tested it on w:c:bioshock:Eleanor_Lamb and it doesn't work. So Wikia's   is probably based on an old branch of Wikipedia's and thus somewhat inferior. --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:06 PM PST 14 Jul 2010
 * Actually the heights option was recently removed as an intended design decision (which personally I wish they hadn't done). I'm having issues as well with images not being resized appropriately and they are bleeding off of their boxes. --Tlosk 02:21, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well Kirkburn says, "we have simplified this to use widths for both directions." But that doesn't seem to work as he says, since widths is not applying to the image height, only the width as seen in w:c:bioshock:Eleanor_Lamb (seen with the tall image of "Eleanor wearing a Big Sister suit."). So, there is still a bug there. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:49 AM PST 15 Jul 2010

Ok. I will not mind to much, but I hope Wikia do fix this eventully. Gourleyo Visit my talk! 14:48, July 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * This is also causing problems on Memory Beta: compare http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Assignment_patch to the cached predecessor at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Assignment_patch


 * We're going to have to redo all of our galleries with template if wikia doesn't sort the code out. -- Captain MKB 15:34, July 15, 2010 (UTC)

Best to keep an eye on the comments of User blog:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries. We're going to try some tweaks. 12:28, July 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * As much as I'd like to agree that Kirkburn's suggestion would be helpful, I don't think it will be. The comments at the blog are generally a mix of complaints with some evasive responses. Somewhat reminiscent of iPhone 4 "Antennagate", but Apple knows how to handle it better and have much more to lose. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:47 PM PST 16 Jul 2010

I am happy to see that wikia is continuously improved, but unfortunately this change broke all galleries on a wiki I contribute to. If it won't be fixed, can't we at least have the old version available as an option, something as ? Thanks, Waitingforspring 19:42, July 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I was really hoping this was a bug in the galleries, rather than 'some customisation'.
 * I would love to be able to get the old gallery styling back.
 * Why is it with these tweaks must the old be broken to implement 'customisation'?
 * I'm all for improving but considering the galleries on the various wikis we edit being a lot of info driven stuff, and we're using the galleries to display info and images, it just seems this addition has made it easier to add images, but not so much on the easier to display info and images in a nice ordered manner. (Memory Beta's being a prime example of this). --Tangerineduel 14:03, July 18, 2010 (UTC)

A lot of the same complaints here: User_blog:Sarah_Manley/Design_your_own_photo_galleries I suggest those who have problems with this bad formatting comment there. Anno1404 16:24, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Project Myface
due to this problem i had to shut my massive project, any news on when it get sorted =(, i cant have my project like this:

http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User:Parsonsda/Project_Myface -- 10:38, July 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I suggest you to send a mail to community$$@$$wikia.com explaining the situation and requesting the complete removal of the Wikia gallery system, since it's unacceptable for us to wait until Wednesday (when the new code rollout is done) to see what kind of "fix" Wikia applies, without a certainty that it would really fix that. That's what it comes to my mind reading that response: We're going to try some tweaks . Kirkburn, that's a real mess that needs a complete rollback, not some tweaks. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 11:00, July 17, 2010 (UTC)

Guys, please leave all feedback on gallery issues on the blog, here. Sending them to community support will get nothing done other then a request to leave feedback and issues on the blog. --Uberfuzzy 17:17, July 21, 2010 (UTC)