On 17 August 2010 10:25, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)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.