Talk:Troubleshooting

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Thumb Fix[edit source]

The explanation for the whole thumb fix phenomenon is long and sordid, but basically it boils down to: a) your admin is an idiot and b) back in October Shoutwiki's code was broken in some weird way.

Mediawiki "frame" is supposed to ignore size parameters, but for some reason it didn't on Shoutwiki.

I hate the little enlarge icon that appears on Mediawiki thumbnails (It's redundant! Clicking on the image already takes you to a fullsize version!), so I just coded in everything with "frame".

Then Shoutwiki fixed their bug so that "frame" didn't resize. I sat around for a few months hoping they'd unfix the bug so things would look okay again, but in March I finally bit the bullet and figured out how to hack our CSS to make the enlarge icon disappear. So now "thumb" is no longer offensive to my idiosyncratic aesthetic sensibilities and we can just use "thumb" for everything like we're meant to and comply with the standard Mediawiki protocol.

But we have to recode everything from "thumb" to "frame". Tinypurpleteacup has done most of this because they are a hero and a Stakhanovite, but if you see an image using "frame" you should change it to "thumb"