On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:00, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/16 Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
Yes, I was thinking that. I suppose hotlinking is done through the "raw" url, which means access to the licence page is simply not happening. Not a problem if people actually credit the authors/respect the licence by adding the necessary info on their website. Not too cool if they don't.
Indeed. Hotlink just means that you put the URL of an external source into the "src" attribute of an <img> tag, e.g.
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Titan-crystal_bar.JPG/300px-Titan-crystal_bar.JPG" />
Because it's not the server of the website that loads this url, but the users browser it is a bit difficult to see if an image is actually hotlinked, although it can be prevented.
I don't think Wikimedia should prevent it though, for all the reasons mentionned earlier in this thread, just that we want to make sure people use the right licensing terms. I haven't read all the links, so maybe all is explained on meta or Commons :)
Delphine (lazy)