https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28613

--- Comment #87 from Reedy <[email protected]> 2011-08-05 16:08:21 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #86)
> (In reply to comment #85)
> > I just appended ?action=purge to the full url and it fixed it
> 
> No, it did not. I tried ?action=purge multiple times since I first reported 
> the
> problem here and it never did anything. It seems my sandbox edit recreated the
> thumbnail. But even if this is true, it does not solve the problem that caused
> all the broken thumbnails.

Loading the image once showed the old one, second request with the purge and it
loaded correctly? Please don't tell me what I did or didn't see.

Maybe so. It is reported as is working for new uploads, and I've tested it
myself and it worked today.

Fixing stuff like this in retrospect isn't so easy, as there is no point
purging everything

(In reply to comment #81)
> I still see a few images with thumbnails that don't match, although new 
> uploads
> are fixed. Perhaps instead of waiting for new uploads or for someone in the
> know to manually purge them as they come across them, there should be a mass
> thumbnail purge and rebuild. (Since people and pages can use any random size
> they want, it probably isn't even possible to rely on that.) Not all at once,
> because I could see that bringing the servers to their knees and frustrating
> everyone, but staged by hash group or as a low priority constant process over 
> a
> week or two.

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