On 17 August 2010 10:25, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard, 17/08/2010 10:44:
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).
I said it was really usable, I didn't say it was perfectly functional ;-) We use it on rationalwiki.org. Occasionally there are glitches where the local MediaWiki fails to correctly retrieve a file from Commons and the failure is cached for a while (up to an hour). But in general, it works well enough that we don't bother copying images to the local server at all. I heartily recommend InstantCommons to anyone with a MediaWiki installation, and should enable it on my work intranet ;-)
- d.