On 16/09/2007, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 15/09/2007, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
The first two images on the [[Water]] page are broken... What's that trick for forcing all a page's content to be explicitly regenerated?
action=purge
Thanks. And something seems to have fixed those images. But I'm not sure it was action=purge. (Did you try it, Thomas? I didn't; the images were fixed by the time I received your reply.) I've noticed that [[Image:Tabak P9290021.JPG]], as seen in [[Nicotine]], is broken, and action=purge doesn't fix it.
Yes, I purged them - I sent an email a few minutes after the first saying so, it must not have arrived yet. I just purged the nicotine patch image, and it worked. To purge you have to use the full url, with index.php, the short form doesn't work, as far as I know.
Clearly there's something badly messed up in an image cache somewhere. If I've encountered this many in a few minutes, there have got to be lots more.
Yes. I don't know how to track them down, though. I'm not sure how long images are cached for - hopefully not too long and the problem will fix itself once the caches expire. If you find any more just go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:XYZ&action=purge