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On my watchlist page I saw bots flagging many articles having corrupt images, some covers and screenshots that I uploaded as broken, but others from the same set are fine, it seems to be random.

What is going on ?

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Unfortunately a large batch of screenshots were corrupted a long time ago, and backups have been overwritten. We have spent a long time trying to figure out what went wrong but in the end, the original files are lost and need to be recreated sadly. 

Some more detail here: https://trello.com/c/hxagMLOA/94-some-old-images-are-corrupted

We will be making a project and having people recreate/resubmit screenshots. Our future systems will be more robust.

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15 hours ago, Andytizer said:

Unfortunately a large batch of screenshots were corrupted a long time ago, and backups have been overwritten. We have spent a long time trying to figure out what went wrong but in the end, the original files are lost and need to be recreated sadly. 

Some more detail here: https://trello.com/c/hxagMLOA/94-some-old-images-are-corrupted

We will be making a project and having people recreate/resubmit screenshots. Our future systems will be more robust.

How many files have been lost in total?

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1600 images are corrupt, or experience other issues (e.g. being too large for the wiki to handle) based on this list: https://pastebin.com/8yQ2xDSj

There's also some 300 images entirely missing: https://files.aemony.se/pcgw/images_missing.txt

Note that this list isn't updated, so a few of the images have already been solved.

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So is there any kind of batch upload planned perhaps? I still have all the images I uploaded (and going by my watchlist, almost all of mine are corrupt now), but going through them one by one is going to be tedious as hell.

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A lot of pages seems to have been fixed, but right now 127 still remain. The category that covers all of these can be found here: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Category:Pages_with_corrupt_images

 

On 4/15/2019 at 8:19 PM, Waschbär said:

So is there any kind of batch upload planned perhaps? I still have all the images I uploaded (and going by my watchlist, almost all of mine are corrupt now), but going through them one by one is going to be tedious as hell. 

This was mentioned by another user on Discord recently as well, and is a proposal I support. I've created a separate thread for that discussion:

 

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