https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40095
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Bug #: 40095
Summary: Set $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom to allow
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Site configuration
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Please set $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom to allow
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/ URLs (whatever the regex is for
that...!)
This will
(i) allow Wikimedia sites to display old versions of a file without having to
reupload it. This can be handy for comparison of different file versions,
particularly on Commons, in image editing tutorials, etc.
(ii) allow transcluding of a specific version, to guard against later updates.
This is of particular relevance for Wikinews.
I know turning on External Images or even the Whitelist would be a BIG DEAL,
but this seems a small one, as it is only supposed to affect bare URLs, and
there should be few if any current bare URLs pointing to upload.wikimedia. I'm
assuming that cases like
[http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Composite_UML_class_diagram.svg
This source is valid SVG 1.1!] will NOT be affected (that would be bad).
If it's possible, maybe some attempt can be made to check what if any existing
uses would be affected.
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