On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Please make sure that any content you serve to your users is done by >> your tool and not hotlinked from another non-project site. >> > > Is it allowed to hotlink to project sites, such as Commons or enwiki? > Yes. Per https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking_or_InstantCommons: It is possible to use files directly on Commons within another website, by setting up a MediaWiki wiki with InstantCommons, so that Commons files can be used as easily as they can on Wikipedia. Directly using a Commons file via embedding its URL ("hotlinking") is also possible, but is not recommended[1]. [..] Additionally you should always check if the needs of the license used by the file are fulfilled if you use a file from Commons, since e.g. the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license requires that you attribute the author and licensor of a work in "reasonable to the medium or means". [1] Hotlinking <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking> is *allowed*from Wikimedia servers, but *not generally recommended*: this is because anyone could change, vandalise, rename <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35721> or delete a hotlinked image. On your own server, you will have control over what is served. Siebrand
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