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March 6

Wp / wm images not loading

I asked at the Wikipedia teahouse and Wikimedia commons teahouse to no avail. I'm getting timeouts from upload.wikimedia that mean I don't see images on Wikipedia any more. It's been like a week or more. No images. What could be going on? I can see images browsing on my phone, until I turn the wifi connection on. So it's IP linked. If i go directly to upload.wikimedia.org, it times out. If I google wikimedia commons and click on it and upload from there, it seems like it's working. But stuff that I'd uploaded this way recently, during the problem? It worked, but now I can't see those images better than any others. Who should I be sending a message to about this? Temerarius (talk) 03:30, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

If you also have this problem viewing images on commons.wikimedia.org, it is definitely not a Wikipedia issue. You gave us much more detail here about the phenomenon plaguing you than you did a week ago at the Commons' Village pump/Technical page, in particular that it may be IP-linked. Is your IP static? Perhaps, describing the issue there again, but as detailed as is possible and reasonable, will elicit possible explanations. In the meantime, did you try other devices with your wifi connection, or your phone with other wifi connections?  --Lambiam 09:57, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Sometimes power cycling a device (such as your Wi-Fi router) makes a stubborn problem disappear.  --Lambiam 20:44, 6 March 2024 (UTC)