Lotxi recently alerted me to a problem on the wiki, which could potentially be very serious, and since I still am not sure who I should PM about this sort of thing I figured I'd do my normal "cry for help" here in the forum.
The problem is that a significant number of images are still technically there, but 95% of their content (all but the top-most part) is gone. There is however no edit history on them, so it's not that someone uploaded a bad version, it's that the file on the server got corrupted somehow. For instance:
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_xygoz.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_leanon_ruksey.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_banker_tintal.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Np...llen_iksar.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Np...ixsa_zexus.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Np...i_burrower.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_a_rattlesnake.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_leanon_ruksey.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Np...aw_lookout.png
https://wiki.project1999.com/File:Npc_a_ratling.png
The only commonality is that they all start with "Npc_" (but then again, so do most of the images in the wiki) and they are all PNGs. That last part makes me wonder if this might be some sort of image-compression-gone-awry problem. It also
could be something else like a HD failure, but since it only seems to affect images (and seemingly not JPGs) I doubt it.
I consider this "very serious" because I'm not aware that the wiki has any image backups, so my fear is that once these images are gone they could be gone for good.
P.S. Is there any chance we could get like a contact email or form or something for the wiki? If the concern is that it would waste a lot of staff time I'd be willing to volunteer to "triage" it so that the staff only gets the messages that genuinely concern them.
P.P.S. Special thanks to Lotxi for contacting me about this; I had only seen it happen once, so I didn't realize there was a problem until I heard from him.