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Twelfth Doctor

Hi, Thor! I see you ran into a little bit of a problem over at Talk:Twelfth Doctor. I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier, but the wiki is just too big to be everywhere at once.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways in which we can make the wording of image policy clearer for you? What did you find that was "contradictory in minor ways", as you put it?

One of the challenges we face on this wiki is that there is so much photographic evidence for this franchise that we have to have rather more rules than your average wiki. If you have, I dunno, w:c:icarly, you don't have to worry about varying picture quality over the years, because the whole of iCarly was shot in a single format. So you can just get by with maybe one or two guidelines. But we have to account for every picture format that has ever existed between 1963 and now.

So if you're finding wording that's confusing, a) I'm not entirely surprised and b) I need to know about it so I can fix it.

Still, the major rules — and all the ones you really needed to correctly upload your pic — are these:

• photos and screenshots must be jpgs or pngs — not any other format
• images should be no narrower than 420px
• infobox images must clearly illustrate their subjects at 420px widths
• files must be appropriately licensed

Please note that these rules do not say that the image should be 300px. They say that 300px is a reasonable minimum, and 250px is the absolute minimum. In general, though, you should go for wider images, so long as they don't push total file size over 100kb. It's often possible to get an 800px image to come in under 40kb.

Additionally filenames shouldn't be gibberish, as your upload was. They should name the subject of the photo clearly, and perhaps include at least the initials of the story from which they come.

All of this would be prominently displayed to you — on the normal file upload page. Unfortunately, you've joined us at a time when we're beta-testing the new VisualEditor. And the VE bypasses these warnings, which is the major source of your confusion, I think. There's not much we can do about this situation right now, cause we're in serious beta with this thing. So all I can do is apologise. You encountered way more confusion than would normally have been typical.

If you have any more problems, don't hesitate to ask!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  04:27: Fri 13 Dec 2013

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.

This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!

We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.

2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!