Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3495717-20150525125437

As part of our continuous struggle goal to make this wiki look as appealing as it can be, I propose yet another alteration to one of our most notable sections: the Palette Gallery.

For those who don't know, the Palette Gallery is a section on character (version) articles that showcases a character's palettes. For as long as they've been around, we've used Wikia's default  tags, and although they have served us well, they do look a little bit bland.

Some may be aware of a new image gallery Wikia added a while ago that, while optional, would ruin Palette Galleries if it were made mandatory as only shows the first eight images, prompting users to press a button if they want to see more than that. Before you call me paranoid, let's not forget that the Oasis skin was once optional, as was the Wiki Navigation bar next to our site logo, but they were forced upon users eventually.

Of course, there's more to this than just preventing disruption from Wikia's new stuff, most notably the fact that Palette Gallery 2.0 is more compact for the most part, taking up much less page space, and adds an activation button to the bottom-right of each palette to let readers know which palette is activated via which button, also removing the need to put things like '(s+a)' in the headers of palette mode sections. It's also worth noting that templates such as  and   are contained within Palette Gallery 2.0.

But enough about what Palette Gallery 2.0 does! On to what it looks like and how to implement it!

As some may have already seen in my sandbox, Palette Gallery 2.0 is a completely self-contained template that allows for switching between Palette Galleries detailing regular button-activated palettes, Palette Galleries detailing Palette Selectors, and alternative palettes, all through three parameters: Allows you to show/hide the activation buttons. Setting to 1 (default value) shows them, while setting to 2 (or anything other than 1) hides them. The buttons would need to be hidden for Palette Selectors and alternative palettes.
 * Buttons=

Changes the text underneath the Palette Gallery. Setting to 1 (or anything other than 2, 3 or 4, default value) shows no text, setting to 2 is essentially the  template, setting to 3 is essentially the   template and setting to 4 is essentially the.
 * Palnote=

Allows you to specify what clicking on the palette images links to (used for alternative palettes that were made by someone other than the creator). You can add a number after  (, etc.) to have a specific palette image link independently from the other palettes images.
 * Link=

Example time! You'll notice that the layout of these templates is practically identical to the regular Palette Gallery, allowing for easy implementation.

Which gives us:

Which gives us:

Which gives us:

Which gives us:

A very versatile and powerful template indeed.

And so it brings us to the poll. As per usual, I rarely implement a feature without your input (unless I don't have much of a choice), so it all comes down to you as to whether or not we upgrade to Palette Gallery 2.0. Before you ask, Plasmo-Bot will change over all current articles (properly this time, no problems like last time) :P

Implement Palette Gallery 2.0? Yes No

Please leave a comment below. I'm always happy to hear your suggestions! Also, try the template out and see if you can break it! Let me know if you manage to :P 