On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:11 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > Hotlinking isn't generally allowed
Who says? Mirroring all pages isn't allowed, but I've never heard that we have a problem with hotlinking images, as long as the bandwidth use is reasonable. On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM, John at Darkstar<[email protected]> wrote: > The person hotlinking can have a resonable fair use claim, but the site > serving a fair use image for someone else would most likely be in > serious trouble defending its position. It's not technically possible for us to stop people from hotlinking images without possible adverse side effects on our own users. What specific anti-hotlinking technique do you propose? Just talking to specific sites that rate high enough on the charts? > If you have some reasoning that > this is not the case it would be interesting, as the fair use images > from english Wikipedia can be moved to Commons if this is correct. That doesn't make sense. Fair use images are prohibited on Commons because they're not in line with Commons' mission. What relevance does that have to hotlinking? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
