Hello everyone,
Last Thursday, a change went live affecting the page images API, which
cased images that previously were appearing in many Wikimedia projects
including the Wikipedia apps, the Wikimedia portal and mobile web search
results to disappear for about 3 hours. The full incident report can be
found here
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20161202-20161201-PageImages>,
the original bug report, here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152155>.
This issue was temporarily fixed by allowing projects to display both free
and non-free images by default for the short term. This will be reverted
once a maintenance script creating the new list of images completes
running, which should take a couple of weeks. After this, the default will
change back to displaying free images only. We will send an update again
once this is deployed.
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience and chaos!
- Olga
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Olga Vasileva // Product Manager // Reading Web Team
https://wikimediafoundation.org/