On 17/08/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Commons could do this, but first we need to standardise. Anyone who actually has tried to write a tool to pick up this stuff will know it is hit and miss.
Well, there is one catch prior to that: IIRC, Flickr plugins transclude the image from the flickr servers. Would we want this for commons - using our bandwidth to display images on blog pages? (I'm not saying yes or no here, just asking the question)
Right now we don't take any steps to prevent this and I see it happening reasonably often - is it likely to be a significant blip compared to our usual bandwidth overheads?
In many ways, the answer to "do we want to?" is pretty intertwined with "what's the point of Commons?" - are we primarily a service for Wikimedia projects, or for the internet at large?