User:RurinGas/Sandbox

The Fallout Image Replacement Initiative, or F.I.R.I., is an Independent Fallout Wiki community project to re-extract and re-shoot various images throughout the entire wiki in order to tidy our revision history.

Introduction
In layman's terms, here's the deal; We have a vast array of images all across the wiki, however our servers only have limited space. We only have (give or take) 80,000 images used on pages, however thanks to our extensive revision history (the images in which count towards our total image use), our actual image usage statistics are almost ten times that number. I don't believe I need to say to any of you that having almost 720,000 images that aren't really being used is an extreme degree of redundancy... Now, we could get rid of these images revision history and everything would be fine, however due to various Copyright reasons relating to our founding, we cannot... Unless, the images are no longer being used. Now, I don't think it needs saying that we cannot simply try and take the law for chumps by just taking the existing image, saving it, and reuploading it as if it's a microwave dinner you just reheated. That would be dangerous, and contribute little.

A more productive alternative, would be going back to the source; re-taking screenshots, re-scanning manuals, re-exporting textures... Not only would this mean that we would have more verifiable images at perhaps even a higher quality, it would also mean that we are no longer using any kind of information whatsoever associated with the existing files we hold, and thus can nix them. Poof. Now, we're unlikely to be able to dig back up everything the wiki contains, much and more has been lost to the sands of times long ago, however it is highly possible if not probable that we could find most things once more.