As part of the UCP project, images used on Gamepedia wikis were migrated to the host and system used by Fandom. The following issues have been reported as a result of the migration.
Fixed / can no longer reproduce
- Inclusion of images from shared repositories in templates does not work.
- Newly uploaded files can result in
broken-image.webpon direct linking. - Links that point to missing images are no longer treated as redlinks.
- Fixed. Null-editing the page helps and updates the link colors.
- Special:NewFiles, Special:ListFiles, Special:MostLinkedFiles is reported to have performance issues.
- The performance issues are apparently a bit less substantial, but now it has other issues instead, namely: some images may fail to load at all.
- This seems to have been a caching issue and doesn't seem to be reproducible now.
- The performance issues are apparently a bit less substantial, but now it has other issues instead, namely: some images may fail to load at all.
- LaTeX generated images from the Math extension are broken.
On hold with WebP being disabled on Gamepedia
As a way to bypass some of the issues, the conversion to lossy WebP images was disabled. This should have fixed (perhaps temporarily) the following issues:
- The only way to get the original source image (instead of a lossy WebP) is the
format=originalURL parameter. There is no documentation for it, nor are links for such URLs available like on Fandom. - Due to forced default lossy conversion to WebP, some images will be severely degraded in visual quality (such as major color bleeding in pixelated sprites).
- Some animated files previously existing on wikis stopped animating (APNG mentioned, one GIF got affected and fixed by reupload).