I don't know what's happened, but a lot of, if not all of, the photos on the wiki just suddenly have become all blurry and poor-quality when attached to articles. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? Thanks either way.
I don't know what's happened, but a lot of, if not all of, the photos on the wiki just suddenly have become all blurry and poor-quality when attached to articles. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen? Thanks either way.
Hi, on one of the wikis I frequent the wiki is used in part as a centralized public storage of sprites. As you might guess, universal changes to images on wikia's end is a serious issue for sprites which are hit quite hard by any compression whatsoever.
Is there going to be a way to opt out of this? Will wikia possibly make changes like this in the future that damage the content on its wikis? If so the particular wiki will probably have to stop functioning in the way it does.
As far as I am aware, the changes didn't impact the files themselves, just how they are rendered. Either way, I don't think Wikia would make an exception unless the wiki you are referring to is particularly huge and widely used. There are far too many wikis for it to be practical to tweak every change for every wiki.
It's like T500 or something like that. Not asking about any specific exceptions, just a question about wikia's plans in the future.
Quote: Hi, on one of the wikis I frequent the wiki is used in part as a centralized public storage of sprites. As you might guess, universal changes to images on wikia's end is a serious issue for sprites which are hit quite hard by any compression whatsoever.
Is there going to be a way to opt out of this? Will wikia possibly make changes like this in the future that damage the content on its wikis? If so the particular wiki will probably have to stop functioning in the way it does.
And this wiki is?
We don't alter the original image uploads that users make. Only copies that are displayed (e.g. on articles) are altered. This means, if you click the 'download' link on a file page, you get the original unaltered upload.
Is there a problem again? Someone started this thread: Images appearing low quality in articles.
Mine seem to be fixed now to me, I have had people report that they find them blurry still. I don't know what that could be.
ShotgunsAndSass wrote:
Mine seem to be fixed now to me, I have had people report that they find them blurry still. I don't know what that could be.
Maybe continuing problems are browser specific?
WebP images are only used in supporting browsers (like Chrome, but not Firefox currently), so browser choice would have some effect. It is possible some images are still cached with the older WebP settings, too.
We are definitely interested in seeing specific examples of problem images, and would encourage anyone to send them in to Special:Contact/bug for us to review.
We are definitely interested in seeing specific examples of problem images, and would encourage anyone to send them in to Special:Contact/bug for us to review.
I'll ask the users in question whether they're on Chrome or Firefox. I've already suggested clearing the cache, though so I doubt if it's a cahce issue it's on the users' ends.