* Cannot access wts.wikivoyage.org

I am getting some really strange image loading problems on several of the WV-en article pages, and individual image pages as well. It seems to be either an ISP filter at my end, or some sort of selective gremlin region filter loose on the WV servers...for detail see Travellers pub - Missing or broken images. I hope someone can assist. The problem is still repeating today.

For example I need to use a proxy server to get to http://wts.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Category:Tech_requests to establish a bug report -- felix 11:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

This is a copy paste of the detail posted on Wikivoyage pub (Section: Missing or broken images)

Can someone please let me know where I should list images that are 'broken', or not displaying in an article, WV commons is displaying a blank image window for the respective images concerned, and accordingly the article/s using those images are not displaying the image. Yesterday for example I got an error message describing the South Bali Region map as having to many bytes (I assume as opposed to the file count in its meta data), today it is just not displaying, as are 3 photo images. The images not displaying in the South Bali article are : Bali-South. --- Felix (talk) 23:17, 10 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Image:Bali-South-Bali-Region-Map.png (does not exist on WV Commons, though yesterday it was generating an error message)
 * Image:Pura_Tanah_Lot.jpg - (does not display on WV Commons)
 * Image:Seminyak_Beach_2.jpg - (does not display on WV Commons)
 * Image:Sunset_in_Kuta.jpg - (does display on WV Commons, however not in the South Bali article)


 * I can see these images. Have you tried to press "Purge Cache for this page"? Atsirlin (talk) 23:24, 10 September 2012 (CEST)


 * Yes I have 'purged' and and restarted my browser, but I am not getting them on the article, or at WV Commons... I will look for the error message I got yesterday and post it here in a few minutes. I have downloaded the images from WT Commons and they are on my desktop. -- Felix (talk) 23:34, 10 September 2012 (CEST)


 * From yesterday South Bali article map. -- Felix (talk) 23:37, 10 September 2012 (CEST)

Error creating thumbnail: convert: Expected 8192 bytes; found 1886 bytes `/home/www/wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/b/bb/Bali-South-Bali-Region-Map.png' @ warning/png.c/PNGWarningHandler/1472. convert: Read Exception `/home/www/wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/b/bb/Bali-South-Bali-Region-Map.png' @ error/png.c/PNGErrorHandler/1455. convert: corrupt image `/home/www/wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/b/bb/Bali-South-Bali-Region-Map.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/2995. convert: missing an image filename `/tmp/transform_55ecad3-1.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2940.


 * I am also having similar issues on the http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bangkok/Sukhumvit article, there my browser cannot display any of the images on the page, where-as on the South Bali article only some of them are not displaying.
 * I can open the page http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Thanonsukhumvit.jpg but the image does not appear in the image pane
 * I cannot open the page http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/4/4d/Thanonsukhumvit.jpg when I try I get the message can't find the server "wtswikivoyage.org".
 * However I can open it using a firefox browser running on the same computer.
 * I can open the page http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Sukhumvit_Road_-01.jpg but the image does not appear in the image pane
 * I cannot open the page http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/8/83/Sukhumvit_Road_-01.jpg when I try I get the message can't find the server "wtswikivoyage.org"
 * The caches had all been flushed out, so as I could view the Bangkok/Sukhumvit images using a Firefox browser I checked the South Bali images, and sure enough they were there. So I decided I had a browser issue with Safari browser Version 5.1.7 (6534.57.2) running on a i7 applemac. So I went to another applemac computer, this one running Safari Version 4.1.3 (4533.19.4), it had never visited the WV site before and the caches and histories were previously scrubbed. I repeated the exact same issues with that entirely different computer, using a different version of the Safari browser,
 * So then I tried using Firefox on that computer, same deal could not load the images an http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/8/83/Sukhumvit_Road_-01.jpg gave me essentially the same message as the Safari browser did... can't find the server "wtswikivoyage.org".
 * I use the Firefox browser through the Tor network on my main computer as I need to for various reasons, so it was accessing the WV site through a Tor server when using that browser. When I then enabled Tor on the Firefox browser using the second computer I could then see the images on the article page and click through to view the file at http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/8/83/Sukhumvit_Road_-01.jpg
 * So then I toggled Tor on and off a few times and repeated the image view problem. Of course by now I was suspecting something odd was going on with my Indonesian ISPs access to wtswikivoyage.org as I was repeating the problem on 2 entirely different computers (one is an older Power PC mac and the other is a new model Intel Mac) with quite different versions of OS and browser/s, the only thing in common was no access to wtswikivoyage.org and the image views when using my Indonesian IP to approach the WV servers.
 * Of course each time I toggled Tor on and off I had to log into the 'secured' WV En project again using the login and password. I also quite the Firefox browser several times. As both of these computers are set up for secure browsing using Firefox and Tor everything gets completely flushed on a browser quit.
 * So it appears that my Indonesian ISP PT Telkom Indonesia may be the established variable here.
 * If the Firefox browser caches the image from the Tor server access it will display the page, this happened a couple of times and confused me for a moment, however I soon caught on to that by trying another image that was not yet cached and it would similarly not load.
 * I am very clear on this and there is no confusion at my end. The exact problem is repeatable, including the South Bali article images as documented above, only the last 2 images on the page are viewable if accessing from my Indonesian ISP. History versions of the same image non-viewable files are also not accessible, for example I tried history versions of Image:Seminyak_Beach_2.jpg but could load the page them, however the linked source Flickr file was fine.
 * I returned to some of the pages I edited yesterday and images I clearly recall seeing earlier are now no longer displaying, going to the source file similarly provides a cannot access server message. On some article pages all of the images cannot be viewed, on others only a few of them cannot be viewed, each page reload is consistent, even after a full cache flush and browser relaunch. I most certainly recall viewing these images yesterday, it is that one of the things I was 'checking the articles for. The only problem I had yesterday was the South Bali map image and that produced the error message cut and pasted above.
 * If I go to http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:(WT-en)_Burmesedays all the .png will not display, the rest of the page is fine, and I can see everything if I approach WV from a Tor server.
 * Log when viewing http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:(WT-en)_Burmesedays:
 * http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/thumb/0/0d/Central_Java_Region_map.png/158px-Central_Java_Region_map.png
 * http://wts.wikivoyage.org/w/images/thumb/2/27/Vietnam_Regions_Map.png/72px-Vietnam_Regions_Map.png
 * etc for all the .png images on that page, the rest of the page log is normal.
 * I would really like to know what others think about this.
 * I have never seen an IP block work selectively like this except on some websites with regional copyright or access filters, ie blocking embedded Flash video files and similar that the copyright owner has not released for viewing in a particular market so the IP ranges in that country are blocked from access, I assume some clumsy artifact or gremlin must be loose on the WV servers, maybe that is what might be causing this, or really very strange filter at the ISP PT Telkom Indonesia. --- Felix (talk) 04:03, 11 September 2012 (CEST)

I can not reproduce your problems neither did I ever had problems like this. The only exception is the problem with the Image:Bali-South-Bali-Region-Map.png. The versions as of 8 February 2010 seems to be missrendered for some reason. This is definitely a WV issue, but not a very critical one. Maybe, the missing images in articles result from an incorrect htaccess authentifications of some of the Tor proxies. -- Hansm 11:09, 12 September 2012 (UTC)