[Foundation-l] discussion about banning external hotlinking

[Joe Szilagyi]

Just a heads up that there is a discussion to see if disabling all
"hotlinking" of images and media from external sites is a good idea, here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Proposal_to_disable_hotlinking

Tim Starling posted some statistics that indicate 1% to 2.5% of all requests
are from outside sites leaching WMF bandwidth resources. In theory this
could save the WMF 1% to 2.5% or more of it's bandwidth costs.

- Joe