Forum:Image resizing bug

Image resizing bug
There is sometime a bug in the image appearance, look at these 2 versions of John Giant page and. The only difference is that I have changed the image option 150px into 140px. There was a similar problem with Nico Olvia portrait. So if you find such a problem the workaround is to change the size.

The problem is that in the file history or in the category, the picture size is a default one and we can not change it. As a consequence they do not appear correctly. Is that a known problem, shall we ask the wikia ? Kdom 19:45, February 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if this is a problem experienced commonly by most of us. At least not from my end.


 * Unless this is the problem, you're talking about.Mugiwara Franky 18:56, February 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * exactly, I have fixed this problem on several images so far (Brogy in particular) and Tipota too. Also if you go to the file page you will that the last version in the history section does not match the current version of the file Kdom 23:50, February 13, 2010 (UTC)

Ok here is the answer I received from the wikia staff yesterday :

Those edits (and the resizing of those images) were done last summer, during a time when our thumbnail generator servers were broken. Thats why they had old broken thumbnails.

Please note: I have fixed all the images on your wiki already, so you dont need to do this.

You just go to the File: page for the image, like

and add ?action=purge to the end

like this,

This will cause the servers to get notified that they need to throw away, and remake all the thumbnails for that image.

This is NOT an instant action, it goes into a waiting list, and can take a few minutes to happen, and go out to all of our cache network servers. Your browser may hold on its own version of the broken image for a little while to, so its best to wait a little while to see the effects

File:Wolfs.gif had the bug yesterday and now it looks fine, I don't if it is due to their action or else. Anyway the correction method is always good to know. Kdom 21:04, March 16, 2010 (UTC)