Forum:Toasted images

As I noted to KD3, a lot of images appear to be toasted for some reason. Example:

File: File:Spell_holy_summonchampion.png Image:.

The image placeholder on the file page links to: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/0/00/Spell_holy_summonchampion.png I go directly to that image, and get 404 - not found. Image data (dimensions, file size) are preserved, but no image.

"These are the right coordinates. Just - no aldeberan." --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 21:58, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * It's a problem that has popped up before; it is because of cache. I can see the image just fine, but that of course doesn't apply to all. -- 22:02, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Presumably cache at wikia's end, then, since I get a 404? --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 22:15, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

Something else I'll mention while I'm on this tear anyway: This was brought to my attention through unusual behavior of the cost template. (See my comments here.)  As part of that examination, I find that in cases where cost is displaying a text name for the currency item, costitem displays only the quantity. While I don't expect this issue to last forever, is there anything we can do on our end to make the Costitem template more robust? --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 22:37, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you mean, are you saying that one of the templates should have the item name as well as the icon and quantity? -- 22:51, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

Okies...  the Triumph emblem image has returned for me. So to get back to the state I'm wailing about, I turn images off. Yeah, unnatural. Get over it. Some folks browse this way.

I bring up the HTML page source for Tier 9 and I find:

1) for instances Emblem of Triumph appears on the page: 2) for instances of costitem for Trophy of the Crusade:
 * the anchor tag is href="/Emblem of Triumph", title="Emblem of Triumph"
 * the image tag within it has alt="Emblem of Frost" (and src=correct image URL)
 * Thus, my browser spits out "Emblem of Frost" for Emblems of Triumph when it can't load the image for some reason (server wonky OR browser says no). This is a problem, and should be fixed.
 * span has class "costitem". Should not be a problem.
 * anchor has matching href and title (for that item). Sehr Gut.
 * image has alt="". I would vastly prefer it to have the item name instead of being blank.
 * Had it alt text, it would have displayed the text since it couldn't get the image.

Can that be managed? --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 23:17, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes: . -- foxlit (talk) 00:08, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

Wikia response to image issues: yes, we've been having a few issues with the file servers over the past few days. Sorry about that! 14:46, January 15, 2010 (UTC)