On 09/03/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Andrew Gray
<shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com
<WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
On my own wiki I link external pictures in by
simply using a http request.
Evidently at one time this was a standard part of the work. Not sure why we
don't just do that for the majority of images.
Massive, massive, massive potential for abuse?
How is the potential different for images than text?
Well, first of all you can't remotely link in (transclude) external
text; you have to edit it into the wiki.
With regard to the question, though:
Short answer: you can't change local text to "OMG PENISES!!!" without
us noticing.
Long answer: we already require local uploading of material, which is
a significant hurdle to easy inclusion of material, and still find
that casual and trivial image copyright problems are far harder to
deal with competently and efficiently than textual copyright problems.
If we want to have a way of enforcing image copyrights that works on
anything more developed than the honour system, we need local uploads
because we need the licensing and source metadata that comes with
them.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk