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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a [[MarioWiki:User|User]] of the Super Mario Wiki. He has a [[Wii U]] and [[Switch]] and is a fan of the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]] and [[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart series]]. He rewrites/expands articles, adds/replaces images, and performs various other file maintenance.

To clarify some definitions: upscaling isn't the same as rendering above native resolution. An image is ''upscaled'' when the file's resolution is higher than the resolution of its content (for example, when a game is rendered at 1x native resolution but screenshot in Dolphin's full screen mode, or if the image is artificially resized with an image editor.) This causes unnecessary file bloat and should usually be discouraged. However, this is not the same as setting the emulator to ''render above native resolution'' (in multiples of the native resolution via the Auto setting in Dolphin.) This produces images whose actual content is in high resolution, and thus does not waste file size. According to {{user|Wildgoosespeeder}}'s [[User:Wildgoosespeeder/sandbox|screenshot guide]], it is acceptable to capture Wii screenshots above 1x native resolution due to Dolphin's inconsistencies with producing native resolution screenshots without upscaling or stretching (read that guide for more info). For SMG/2, I follow that guide to produce 1920x1048, above native screenshots.  

* Here is a tip to find images with special characters that may need to be renamed. With a list of image names in a text editor such as Notepad++ or VScode, search for the regex <code><nowiki>[^a-zA-Z\d\s:\[\]\.\-\']</nowiki></code>. This will highlight any characters other than letters, numbers, wiki syntax, hyphens, and apostrophies, making it easier to identify images that may need renaming, such as [[:File:YWW ★-S Shiny Platinum Yoshi.jpg]].

To sort a gallery alphabetically, put the code contents in a text file and run the command <code>awk -F'|' '{ print $NF "|" $0 }' filename | sort -t '|' -k1 | cut -d '|' -f2-4</code> on it. This sorts alphabetically by the contents of the last text field, with text fields, in this case, separated by "|", therefore grabbing the display names of links. By default, this will ignore special characters, such as <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki></code>, which is generally desired. If you want to sort all characters literally, run <code>export LC_ALL=C</code> first.

* [https://youtube.com/watch?v=D8pcvkRsx1gA video by Luke Smith explaining ImageMagick.]

This should be equivalent to running [[User:Wildgoosespeeder/PNG Monstrous|PNG Monstrous]] with the pngout and zopflipng options enabled. Additionally, it will convert BMPs to PNGs and uncapitalize file extensions. This script requires zopflipng, pngout, and GNU Parallel. It will run {{wp|PNGOUT|pngout}} and {{wp|Zopfli|zopflipng}} on all pngs, PNGs, bmps, and BMPs in the current directory and output the compressed images to the ./optimized directory with a lowercase .png filename. Zopfli uses the <code>-m</code> ("<code>compress more: use more iterations</code>") and <code>--lossy_transparent</code> ("<code>remove colors behind alpha channel 0. No visual difference, removes hidden information.</code>") options. It will compress multiple images in parallel, up to the number of CPU cores in your computer. This script is intended for Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux and MacOS. You will need to install Zopflipng and GNU Parallel with your package manager (for MacOS, use the [https://brew.sh/ Brew] package manager). I'm not sure about Windows, but you can probably use this in the {{wp|Windows Subsystem for Linux}}, or maybe find a way to port this to a native PowerShell script. You will probably need to download pngout [https://web.archive.org/web/20190602193301/http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm manually] and place it in in a directory in your PATH, such as ~/bin, as it is not available in most package managers. With the required programs installed, just put this code in a text file saved in ~/bin or in the folder where your PNGs are, <code>chmod +x</code> it, and it should work. If not, you can just manually run the two commands while in the folder with the PNGs. It's less convenient, but it would do the same thing.<br>

==Big projects he has completed==