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 ==Target Audience==
 Only a few users actively contribute to fixing bad quality images. What is the ratio of writers vs. uploaders?
+* Amount of effort for a writer or uploader can make is determined by:
+** Time investment to perform such a task
+** Content sources that are accessible digitally (like the internet, or a downloaded game) or in physical form
+** The ability to successfully capture what said content it is about
+* As a general starting point, video games (not non-video game media based on video games) will be covered as it covers most of the overall images uploaded in the wiki in order to understand:
+# How those two roles perform their tasks, and
+# How it influences and explains the ratio of writers vs. uploaders
+:* <u>'''Role descriptions'''</u>
+::* '''Writers:''' Describe the information of the story, lore, game mechanics, actions, description of the subject's looks/imagery, anything that's not uploading images.
+::* '''Uploaders:''' Find images that capture what the subject is about.
+:* <u>'''Sources'''</u>
+::* '''Writers:''' Playing the game (from a console, or from an emulator), YouTube videos, or walkthroughs
+::* '''Uploaders:''' Taking screenshots from a game (with a capture device, or from an emulator), Miiverse (people playing Wii U/3DS games can upload screenshots on their accounts), screenshots from video game websites, game sprite image repositories, or off-hand sources (such as screenshoting a lossy-compressed YouTube video frame)
+:* <u>'''Difficulty'''</u>
+::* '''Writers:''' 1) Quality of gathering info. 2) Written info dependent on the quality of writing, grammar, etc from gathered info.
+::* '''Uploaders:''' Utilizing info to find the location of the content to be uploaded as an image.
+:* <u>'''Margin of error'''</u>
+::* '''Writers:''' Ways for incorrect info: 1) Misremembering info details, 2) misinterpreting given info, and 3) deliberate incorrect info.
+::* '''Uploaders:''' Ways for incorrect images: 1) Uploading the image that isn't the subject, and 2) deliberate incorrect image upload.
+:* <u>'''Getting the highest quality content possible'''</u>
+::* '''Writers:'''
+:::* The highest possible quality of writing is limited by it's writing and analyzing skills.
+:::* Writers can get all the info from the video game itself (from a console or from an emulator) by playing the game normally, with exceptions:
+::::* Technical info such as enemy RPG statistics that can only be found through a strategy guide or hacking game files.
+::::* Games with different versions and/or different languages with differing content, like story localization changes or additional content.
+:::* If writers never played a particular video game before, they can use second-hand sources such as YouTube videos and walkthroughs.
+::::* Writers using second-hand info should ask for verification from someone who has played that particular video game since second-hand info may not be accurate.
+::* '''Uploaders:'''
+:::* Uploaders must get the highest quality of game screenshots through emulation or a screen capture device.
+::::* Getting a game screenshot from a particular location through emulators requires playing through the game with accompanied skills to do so.
+:::::* Uploaders playing a video game from an emulator can use:
+:::::# Save states as a safety net to lower difficulty by replaying a difficult part without loss of time, or moments in the game that go by too fast to screenshot it.
+:::::# Download game saves from the internet in order to access to a particular part of the game to screenshot faster.
+::::* Uploaders uploading should be aware that game screenshots captured through emulation may have emulation render errors.
+::::* Screenshoting newer games byemulation (like 3DS and Wii U titles) is impossible due to the lack of emulators or they're not developed enough to take screenshots.
+:::::* A suggested alternative way is to retrieve screenshots posted from Miiverse (screenshots uploaded from 3DS and Wii U); however, I have no knowledge on how accurate the screen captures are uploaded from a 3DS or Wii U.
+:::* For uploading game sprites, they can be found from image repositories, after making the background transparent, and cropping to only the game sprite.
+::::* If the desired game sprite is not found, if the desired game sprite and game background is not too complicated to deal with: Screenshot that particular part from an emulator, separate the background from the sprite by removing the background, and make the background transparent.
+:::::* If the desired game sprite is too complex to successfully retrieve:
+::::::* Ask someone who specializes in retrieving and compiling sprites to request a particular game sprite piece.
+::::::* Learn specialized skills of retrieving and compiling sprites from a video game through emulation.
+That was a lot of thinking and writing out! Took around 6 hours to write it out! I'm not sure which one is easier to do, since it's dependent on well you do in one of the two. Although, I would say that the potential for users to be image uploaders by uploading the best possible game screenshots through the use of emulators is suggested to be stunted because of the stigma crafted by publishers in that "emulating equals piracy" when emulators are a legal tool to be used. --{{User:RAP/sig}} 04:00, 16 April 2016 (EDT)
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