David Gerard, 17/08/2010 10:44:
On 17 August 2010 03:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, this was proposed (also) by Erik Moeller two years ago http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31977 during a discussion on hotlinking http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/31919
Hotlinking is fine, and InstantCommons is really really nice and really usable.
Yes, IstantCommons is great, but I wouldn't call it "really usable". We use it on http://www.wikimedia.it and we often have random errors like http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/File:Failed_to_open_stream.png , especially with big images like those added here http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/5_anni,_5_milioni_di_file_multimediali_su_... (obviously this is more frequent when the image scalers are busy; and looks like it's happening less frequently, lately, but I'm not sure).
Nemo