Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-5917596-20150908105208

Moviesign wrote: @Robcamstone: I was trying to do something like what Dessamator suggested in post #320 above, where they used the parameter to fix a broken image. My apologies for a poorly worded question.

So does File: do everything that Image: does? Is Image: unsupported, deprecated, or what? And how should I have known this? Is there a forum I need to be following so I don't get blindsided by stuff like this?

I just checked Wikipedia, it says here that File: and Image: are interchangeable. Is that not true for Wikia? Hi, No need for you to apologise for my misunderstanding I took a look at Dessamator post above, what Dessamator was on about was not related to your current problem, but I can see where the confusion would come about but   and    are unrelated at lest in relation to your wikis' problem.

I see that a few users have explain about the difference between   and    so you don't need a response from me on that.

Getting back to your problem of changing all the   to just image.jpg if as I'm guessing you used the migration tool to create the PortableInfobox then I would suggest you put in a bug report and explain that it needs to check for    because wikis like yours that have been around for years may well still be using that tag and also if the image has a caption then the migration tool will need to convert that as well.

The problem is that the migration tool has convert the Infobox for you but has not updated all articles that are using the converted Infobox.

You have a number of options non of them that great :-(
 * manually updated each article on which the newly created PortableInfobox is use (ask editors on your wiki to help out with the manual edits, when I can I'll be happy to help out with manual edits, let me know).
 * Use AutoWikiBrowser to do semi-automatic edits for you.
 * put in a bot request as suggested in a post above.
 * put in a bug report and request that wiki fix your articles that are using the PortableInfobox as it's their migration tool that has coursed the problem on your wiki.
 * Undo the migration and stick with the old template.

The fact is that the longer a wiki has been around the more likely it is that any updates to wikia will effect them most of all.

Don't lose heart if you can get your wikis' users to help out then the wiki will be sorted in no time at all :-) Regards, Rob.

Edit: Heres a link to help with AutoWikiBrowser and bots.