Hotlinking fair use images are something that should not be possible.
John

Brian skrev:
> Two things
> 1. There isn't a good way to get an image dump
> 
> 2. Allowing hotlinking seems to fit nicely within the WMF mission.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Alex wrote:
>>> We do have http://stats.wikimedia.org/ which includes things like
>>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/VisitorsSampledLogOrigins.htm
>> I see on that list pretty high the site www.musicistheheartofoursoul.com
>> Looking at the page, they include many images from wikimedia servers,
>> hotlinking them and without link to the image page.
>>
>> Moreover, they aren't even free images but Fair Use ones uploaded on
>> enwiki.
>>
>> Shouldn't we politely ask them to make a local copy?
>>
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