https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35721

--- Comment #7 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Hotlinking is entirely legitimate; consensus has been often sought and never
> found to discourage it. Anyway, this can affect priority, but not severity,
> and
> this seems a major bug to me.
> 
> It is also for Wikimedia projects, by the way: e.g.
> http://fa.wikinews.org/?oldid=129251 produces on main page:
> GET http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Wikinews_banner_22.png
> 404 (Not Found)
> 
> 404 Not Found
> 
> The resource could not be found.
> 
> File not found:
> /v1/AUTH_43651b15-ed7a-40b6-b745-47666abf8dfe/wikipedia-commons-local-public.
> 17/1/17/Wikinews_banner_22.png
> 
> Because [[commons:File:Wikinews_banner_22.png]] is a redirect.

Note, that the sister project issue would also be fixed by bug 22390.

I agree this bug should be fixed for the hotlinkers (I would call it a normal
priority issue).

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