Here is Aesirknight's winning design from round 2
I have no idea where you had this stored, but thanks a ton !
The showcase looks great but the images are too small in the table
They're
thumbnails. On our wiki, you can click
any thumbnail to enlarge it. And keep clicking until you get to the source file. (Same principle as on Wikipedia and so on.)
I've experimented with larger thumbnails, but the more leeway I gave them, the more horrible it started to look. The tables started feeling overwhelming and adding unintentionally to the length of the whole page. My initial plan were much larger thumbnails, which would simply go one after the other, without any neat table. The page would look long and unappealing as a result. Luckily, I realised very quickly there's a better way to do a gallery, even on DokuWiki. But, with the large number of flags present, it did necessitate their initial thumbnails being a bit smaller.
and, as pointed out, the descriptions (both the round descriptions and the winning flag descriptions) aren't visible and it's not clear that the reader can click on the round number for more details.
This will be rectified. I plan to make everything as understandable as possible, while avoiding cluttering the tables.
Between the showcase and the "quick overview" on the main WFC page there is a lot of duplicated information and I would personally just combine the two lists.
I've thought about that, but it would be too much of a hassle to move everything and to rework the table in order to include the voting threads and whatnot. The whole point of the showcase is that it isn't cluttered. It's intended for visitors as well, whereas the list isn't. That one's more for our convenience. (And frankly, if I had not worked on it up until now, I would have severe issues making any sort of gallery.)
Lastly, if dividing the list into sections of 50 is meant for comfortable categorisation and navigation, it seems that this size is still too large; I would recommend dividing the rounds by year. Otherwise, really great work here. Thanks for taking the time to compile all of this!
I'm afraid I'm not going to change that. Thinking about it, dividing things by year would create a slew of tables of uneven length, and only make the page longer. It would also create 8 different sections, rather than just 4. Why add needless complexity ? It would be even more headache-inducing than what I already had to do while making the tables.
I chose 50 rounds for each table because 50 is a nice, round number. People get to see a lot of flags in one go, but still just enough to not feel overwhelmed while they're scrolling or clicking a hyperlink to just one particular section. Would we prefer to have tables starting and ending at unpredictable numbers (e.g. ends at 32, starts at 33, ends at 67, starts at 68), with seemingly no rhyme or reason where it ends or starts other than the year ? It would just confuse newcomers, and that's exactly what the showcase is aimed against.
Therefore, I chose a regular length to every table (50 rounds, not a single more or less). That's the most democratic approach to putting the flags in the gallery, and the most accomodating to any newcomer who's completely new here, but has an interest in whether we have contests and so on. The less you confuse people and the more predictable you are in showcases like this, the better.
And not all of them might look that great if changed to a certain size.
