On 17/08/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)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?
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