Forum:Video Thumbnails messed up and Image Gallery showing message..

At our wiki, the Image gallery keeps showing a message, '''Anyone can help to make this wiki look amazing, Add a Photo! '''Even though the images are still there. And an anonymous user changed the videos on our wiki and some of them now have broken links, and they look different.

Does anyone know how to fix this? -- Aura24 02:51, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

Copied over from VSTF wiki
An anonymous user, 127.0.0.1, is going around deleting videos off of various wikias when no changes were even needed, and re-uploading them in weird thumbnails and sometimes replacing them with broken links. The Spyro Wikia and the Skylanders Wikia are two of the many victims this guy had vandalized. As a result of the changes this user made, our video thumbnails aren't showing the usual Youtube layout as they had before. We aren't able to undo the changes he did on the Spyro Wiki nor the Skylanders Wikia.. -- Aura24 04:22, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * 127.0.0.1 is the IP address of localhost, in a nutshell, your computer. This sounds like the changes Wikia is doing to upgrade to their new Video setup to make sure that video's are properly attributed to their source (IE, YouTube). This does not sound like a vandalism issue. If you can point out a page or two that is incorrect, I can try to help, but from what I am seeing, the videos on Spyro are showing up correctly. Rappy 05:07, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Here are a few pages from the Skylanders wikia that shows the changed videos and a broken video link: http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/Spyro#Videos and http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/Warnado#Video -- Aura24 05:16, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Those videos have been removed from YouTube by the user that uploaded them. This has nothing to do with the video changeover. Rappy 05:25, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * The videos haven't been removed on youtube, since I was the one who uploaded them and posted them on the wiki. It's the result of the changes of that IP address. And you're saying that 127 is a localhost of Wikia? -- Aura24 05:26, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * All WikiaBot did was replace the spaces with _'s. According to YouTube, the video is no longer there. What are the links of the videos that are missing?


 * localhost is a reserved hostname for local computer. It's a loopback network service. In a nutshell, it's your computer. Rappy 05:39, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh I see now. Me and the admins thought this localhost was another random vandalizer. The videos are still on my youtube, and we're in the process of uploading new versions of the same videos that have the broken links with the youtube urls. -- Aura24 05:42, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * If you can give me a few of the URLs so we can look into this, it might help find out how it happened in the first place. I suspect it has to do with filenames with :'s in the name. Gonna tag this in hopes of getting staff involved. Rappy 05:45, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Here are few of the url links.


 * Wiki Video Link: http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/File:Skylanders_Spyro%27s_Adventure_-_Voodood_Preview_(Axe_First,_Questions_Later)


 * Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS32s88HaNE


 * Wiki Link: http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/File:Skylanders_Spyro%27s_Adventure_-_Hex_Preview_(Fear_the_Dark)


 * Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vHqtEQ_eQ -- Aura24 05:51, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, Thanks for the report. It may be that the original video was changed or removed, so you just need to update the link. I updated the link from the two examples and they are now working. Some of the urls in the move did break, so it may be that it happened here. If you can provide me with a full list, I am happy to help fix it. Thanks, --Sarah (help forum | blog) 17:23, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * I discovered a list of videos the localhost had edited, some have broken video links. http://video.wikia.com/wiki/File:ATL_(2006)_-_Open-ended_Trailer_for_ATL#filelinks -- Aura24 07:31, April 7, 2012 (UTC)