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What pages are missing screenshots?
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Post by
Aesiria
Hi!
My question may be kind of strange, but here I go:
Is there anyway to track what pages/items/zones/etc on the Wowhead site there are that are missing screenshots? I just thought it could be something fun to do when I'm bored in-game and have nothing else to do.
/Aesiria :)
Post by
Nulgar
Items without screenshot
NPCs without screenshot
As far as I remember though, that flag is not updated very often, so you might come across entries that already do have a screenshot.
Post by
giga
There is also the
Missing Screenshots
page.
Post by
Aesiria
Thank you for your answers.
Looks like there aren't many screenshots needed. Maybe I can find some pages that could use better screenshots, but those will probably take awhile to find :)
Post by
rahael
There is also the
Missing Screenshots
page.
The missing screenshots page is unreliable and generally terrible (it says 12 NPCs instead of 9496). I've asked repeatedly for it to be removed because it causes a lot of confusion and keeps perpetuating bad information. Filtering the database the way Nulgar suggested is the best way to find pages that still need screenshots. The "has screenshot" flag is updated every time the database is refreshed which occurs most often after a major content patch is released and perhaps every few weeks between patches.
Post by
Erorus
There is also the
Missing Screenshots
page.
The missing screenshots page is unreliable and generally terrible (it says 12 NPCs instead of 9496). I've asked repeatedly for it to be removed because it causes a lot of confusion and keeps perpetuating bad information. Filtering the database the way Nulgar suggested is the best way to find pages that still need screenshots. The "has screenshot" flag is updated every time the database is refreshed which occurs most often after a major content patch is released and perhaps every few weeks between patches.
Regarding NPCs, it would only select NPCs that had gossip (like vendors, flight masters, etc) or were bosses. I updated the query to include any NPCs for which we have Alliance/Horde reaction info (friend or foe). That fix should go live sometime soon.
As far as "unreliable and generally terrible", that page also restricts results to entries with comments (to filter out items/NPCs/etc that nobody cares about), in-game entries (obviously), and it only shows the first 200 results. How would you suggest we change it?
I'll see about updating the "has screenshot" flag as soon as a screenshot gets approved, instead of having to wait for a patch.
Post by
rahael
As far as "unreliable and generally terrible", that page also restricts results to entries with comments (to filter out items/NPCs/etc that nobody cares about), in-game entries (obviously), and it only shows the first 200 results. How would you suggest we change it?
I think communicating exactly what that page displays would really help
a lot
! Nobody has ever explained it to me, and so I always assumed that it was just bad code. Like me, many people think that it flags all entries without screenshots, and so they decide that there aren't many places they can contribute to the database and then give up. Perhaps adding a description that outlines what the page is and also describes how to use the flag to search the database would help clear up a lot of misconceptions?
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