Ran Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 As some may have noticed, the wiki has been quite slow of late. This is because something is causing a lot of sockets to open and wait for content, and I have a suspicion it may have to do with something going on with our images. Compare the Viserys I image at https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Viserys_I_Targaryen -- if you right click it and copy image address, you are pointed directly to an image at https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/7/7c/VISERYS_I.jpg Now look at the Viserys Targaryen image at http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Viserys_Targaryen -- if you right click there and copy image address, you are not given a direct image url but instead , you are pointed to http://awoiaf.westeros.org/thumb.php?f=Viserys_Targaryen.jpg&width=350. This means that every time that page is loaded, it has to run thumb.php rather than just going straight to the image. This is adding an enormous amount of requests to the server, and appears to be preventing Varnish from caching the static images. So my question is, does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? Compare to any page on wikipedia.org and you'll see that the Viserys I example is what we _should_ be getting, not the Viserys Targaryen example with thumb.php being called for each image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Could it be the usage of "file" vs. "image"? Viserys uses the former and Viserys I uses the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 11 hours ago, Nittanian said: Could it be the usage of "file" vs. "image"? Viserys uses the former and Viserys I uses the latter. I tested that by changing Viserys I to use File and I'm not sure that's it (Image is a legacy tag and should behave like File anyways). Certainly made no difference. What I do see is that Viserys I uses the Monarch infobox and that seems to handle the image differently in that template than the character infobox does. But it's also happening in non-infobox contexts, like the Viserys Targaryen image for the Exile subheading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Got some help and solved it -- I misunderstood the purpose of a particular LocalSettings.php setting and removing it fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 2 hours ago, Ran said: Got some help and solved it -- I misunderstood the purpose of a particular LocalSettings.php setting and removing it fixed it. Yep, loading much faster today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 27 minutes ago, Nittanian said: Yep, loading much faster today! Real test will be the next episode, but definitely performing substantially better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grey Wolf Posted May 4, 2019 Share Posted May 4, 2019 @Ran Any comments on the Kayce discrepancy and from where Ser Roger Corne is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grey Wolf Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) Also, the following men need to be added to the list of Blacks: Lord Hornwood, Lord Cerwyn, Hallis Hornwood (Mad Hal), Timotty Snow (the Bastard of Flint's Finger), and maybe Lord Hornwood's younger son. Edited May 6, 2019 by The Grey Wolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Should "King of Meereen" be a separate page from Queen of Meereen? Queen of Meereen is a title Daenerys uses as ruling monarch, but as far as we know, she is the only one to have had the title. King of Meereen, on the other hand, was also used by the Meereenese rulers of old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 On 5/11/2019 at 8:31 AM, Rhaenys_Targaryen said: Should "King of Meereen" be a separate page from Queen of Meereen? Queen of Meereen is a title Daenerys uses as ruling monarch, but as far as we know, she is the only one to have had the title. King of Meereen, on the other hand, was also used by the Meereenese rulers of old Might it be better to have "King of Meereen" as the article title (since it is a concept existing before "Recent Events") and have "Queen of Meereen" redirect to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zionius Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 @Ran Could you update the Chinese interwiki link on the main page? Namely, update The Chinese wiki to https://asoiaf.huijiwiki.com. Also, the claim "Links to articles that are available in other languages are on left side on the page" needs to be updated to something like "by clicking the globe icon on the top-right corner". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 (edited) https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/File:Deepwood_motte.jpg has Public Domain licensing but no mention of the artist. Should it be removed? edit: Maybe it's a depiction of Stafford Castle in England? Edited May 22, 2019 by Nittanian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 "Manfred Hightower" disambiguates to "Manfred Hightower (Aegon's Conquest)" and "Manfred Hightower (son of Addam)". Wouldn't it be easier to have the Conquest character be primary, as we already disambiguate his descendant as Addam's son? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dragon Demands Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 (edited) yeah Edited July 27, 2022 by The Dragon Demands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zionius Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 1 hour ago, The Dragon Demands said: Question: Does the magnetic compass exist in Westeros? The final episode of the TV series showed a ship captain's table, prominently displaying a far-eyes (telescope) and a star chart (I don't know how they did that, given that attempts to make an image of the fictional constellations in the world of Westeros was abandoned). I need to cross-reference the star chart with real life ones. At any rate, the edge of the star chart says the word "compass" on it, though on re-watch I don't think we saw an actual compass on-screen. The issue is that I e-searched using ASearchOfIceAndFire, and the word "compass" indeed comes up exactly once, in the Prologue to A Clash of Kings: "Lord Stannis Baratheon's refuge was a great round room with walls of bare black stone and four tall narrow windows that looked out to the four points of the compass"Is this a one-off mistake? Or does the magnetic compass actually exist in Westeros? There's a compass sign in the KL map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 19 hours ago, Nittanian said: "Manfred Hightower" disambiguates to "Manfred Hightower (Aegon's Conquest)" and "Manfred Hightower (son of Addam)". Wouldn't it be easier to have the Conquest character be primary, as we already disambiguate his descendant as Addam's son? Shouldn't the primary page (if it does not lead to the disambiguation page) be the page of the character most prominently featured? And they are both somewhat equally featured, I think.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittanian Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 2 hours ago, Rhaenys_Targaryen said: Shouldn't the primary page (if it does not lead to the disambiguation page) be the page of the character most prominently featured? And they are both somewhat equally featured, I think.. Although both are minor characters, the Conquest Manfred would seem to me to be of more importance than the Manfred of Aenys's reign (and hatnotes are cheap). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dragon Demands Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 (edited) yeah Edited July 27, 2022 by The Dragon Demands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grey Wolf Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Titus Peake needs to be added to the list of Greens as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Any opinions on this issue raised on the Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar) page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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