FlightGear wiki:FlightGear screenshot categories

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This is a draft.

Please discuss this draft on the discussion page.


The FlightGear screenshot categories contains image files with in-sim screenshots of aircraft, scenery, the user interface etc.

General structure

See also Special:CategoryTree/FlightGear screenshots.
  • The main purposes of the category structure is to make it browsable and easy to use when searching both for more and less specific files.
  • The structure can be seen as a group of trees with intertwining branches with some spider webs between the branches.
  • Some parts are follows the pattern of other category trees, while other are independent of any other arrangement.
  • Some parts more logically arranged and/or named than other.
  • Some categories are cross linked to article categories.

Making files easy to find

  • The best way to make a file easy to find really is to use a descriptive file name and add a good file description. That way it can much easier be found with the wikis search function and with external search providers (like Google search).
  • Categories are not tags, but a group of similar items that can be browsed by traversing related groups through links between the categories.
  • By adding a few categories that are as specific as possible, a file can be found easier.
  • To find a good category either use the category tree or the blue triangles in the Subcategories section on a category page.

Aircraft related categories

See also Special:CategoryTree/Screenshots of aircraft.
  • The image and article categories are heavily cross linked with each other to simplify browsing the category structure.
  • There is a screenshot category subtree by aircraft type
    • That structure is heavily intertwined with a similar article category subtree...
    • ...wich in turn follows the Wikipedia category structure
  • Some aircraft have a subtree like below:
    • Aircraft screenshot category
      • Cockpit screenshot category
      • Cockpit details screenshot category
      • Custom dialog screenshot category

For now there is no aircraft screenshot category by manufacturer.

Scenery related categories

See also Special:CategoryTree/Screenshots of scenery.
  • The image and article categories are heavily cross linked with each other to simplify browsing the category structure.
  • The scenery screenshot categories consists of the two intertwined scenery and airport subtrees.
  • These are both intertwined with the both related article subtrees.
  • All four subtrees are in a continent, then country, then airport hierarchy.

Dialog categories

See also Special:CategoryTree/FlightGear dialog screenshots.
  • This category subtree mainly consists of screenshots of dialogs.
  • This category subtree also contains the aircraft specific custom dialog screenshots.

Other categories

Category diffusion

  • Category diffusion by splitting of related files into new subcategories will help finding specific files if it is done in a consistent and logical way.
  • As a rule of thumb this can be done when there is between three to seven files that are strongly related to each other, for example by being screenshots of the cockpit of the same aircraft.
  • In order to make a subcategory useful the category page should contain:
    • A good category description, either using {{fg screenshot cat}} or {{en}} (or another language template)
    • Links in the description to any related articles
    • A category link to the main category
    • Maybe category links to some related categories (including article categories)
  • It is often useful to use category sorting in the category links

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