Board Thread:Dark Assembly/@comment-653063-20150305172313/@comment-653063-20150306010354

So here's our plus-1-exp. I clicked on the old filename, and it takes me to the new filename, and says "Redirected from old file name," so on the one hand, that's really cool.

On the other hand, oh gosh, that's going to mean.... SO many deleted REDIRs.....

Pages that included the original file-link keep the file-link in the code, so yeah they'd all have to be altered, but interestingly, when you mouse over the image, it tells you its the new file. so that's... nice-ish.

So here is, or maybe was, my thought: I'd make a template that I could attach to the images that need to be renamed (it's pretty much all stuff like 'the images are named in such a way that they're all over the place in the category', and renaming them would bring them more in line with each other / the naming scheme in that category. But see, this is kind of the problem: I would have to apply the template to the image; you would change the file name; the either one of us would go through and change any links that include that file; (if I'm changing the links, then I have to VFD the old file name;) then you delete the file. That's 4-5 steps, and in order to be 'done' with one image, it means I either wait twice for you to be at keys (once for me applying the rename template, then for you to delete the old redir) or I'm foisting another work request on you (if you change the links).

sigh. This is a bad idea, isn't it.

I'm beginning to see why this Wikia is dead. It's not that nobody likes Disgaea, it's that dealing with Wikia code/system/format/whatever is like pulling teeth. I've been here four weeks and I've gotten, at most, one and a half week's worth of work done. And I've put in an obscene amount of hours.

Ok. Nevermind. Thank you for indulging my experiment. Let's just finish T2C before these code problems burn me out entirely.