On a small number of pages, you will see titles of pictures instead of pictures. If you click or tap on the title, you will see the picture at full resolution, but the article will not show you pictures until you click. If you land on a page where there are clearly supposed to be pictures, but they don’t appear, leave a comment on that page, and it will alert Father Pitt to the problem.

For a short time the problem was much worse than that, affecting thousands of articles and causing old Pa Pitt to despair. But he worked out a kluge that solves most of the problem.

The problem happened because of a change at Wikimedia Commons. For many years, Father Pitt has donated his pictures to Wikimedia Commons so that anyone can find and use them. He then embedded those pictures on his own site, which was allowed by Commons, embedding the lower-resolution versions and linking them to the full-resolution versions.

A while ago, the “standard resolutions” that Commons provides changed. Then, in March of 2026, the access to non-standard resolutions for outside sites was turned off. Since it happened without any notice, or even any public suggestion that it might be a possibility, old Pa Pitt had no chance to set up some automated process that would transfer the files to his own server. All the pictures from before the standard resolutions changed no longer appeared on their pages.

Father Pitt is not complaining, or at least not much: Wikimedia Commons is a group of volunteers doing their best, and Father Pitt wishes them well. Old Pa Pitt’s improvised solution to the problem works for most cases; it requires real-time substitution of the image URLs, which requires him to write some replacement rules, which is not his favorite thing. But it’s better than revising two or three thousand articles.