Image Thumbnail Creation Errors

[Serena Laran]

Hey Admins, there's some sort of problem with the way thumbnails are created in the wiki. It's been broked for a long time, but I don't think anyone's asked about getting it fixed before. Or if they have, I don't remember.

Anyway, if someone could look into this and see if the software needs updating or if it's an option that needs selecting in the wiki admin section, it would be much appreciated! Thank you!

examples: http://www.sw-fans.net/wiki/index.php?title=Shepherd-class_Herdship

http://www.sw-fans.net/wiki/index.php?title=Zereth_Lancer

[Dasquian Belargic]

I got no clue.

*summons the Chrises*

[Captain Untouchable]

I had this problem before when I hosted a wiki. It could be for a number of reasons: the most obvious possibility being that thumbnails might not be enabled properly in the wiki settings.

It's just a case of turning a 0 into a 1 in the right place I think... but unfortunately I can't remember if you need to be a wiki admin to do that, or if you need to ferret around in the wiki files on the hosting. (I think the latter?)

It's a common issue with WikiMedia anyhow, so it should be easy enough to find the answer with a quick google search.

[Morgan Evanar]

I'm looking into it right now.

[Morgan Evanar]

Thumbnail settings
$wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse - Allow thumbnail rendering on page view.
$wgMaxAnimatedGifArea - Force thumbnailing of animated GIFs above this size to a single frame instead of an animated thumbnail.
$wgSharedThumbnailScriptPath - Same as $wgThumbnailScriptPath, but for shared uploads.
$wgShowArchiveThumbnails - Whether to show thumbnails for old images on the image description page.
$wgTiffThumbnailType - Array of extension and mime type to transform TIFF images to.
$wgThumbnailScriptPath - Give a path here to use thumb.php for thumbnail generation on client request, instead of generating them on render and outputting a static URL.
$wgThumbUpright - Adjust width of upright images when parameter 'upright' is used.
$wgThumbLimits - List of image sizes users can pick from.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Thumbnail_settings

I don't have access to the settings file unfortunately.

[TheHolo.Net]

Our config file has none of those variables.

I'm wondering if we no longer have access to imagemagick on the host for resizing of thumbnails. I am investigating.

EDIT: Looks like imagemagick is still on the host, next step.....

EDIT AGAIN: Turning off ImageMagick appears to have fixed it.

[TheHolo.Net]

Problem fixed, though it remains to be seen if fixing that problem wont cause others.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Thank you! :)