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Rolf Lampa wrote:
What's the status for the idea to adapt the MW
platform for using media
from Commons in ("live") image links?
I recall an idea being discussed earlier was to cache pictures on the
calling MW site after the first fetch from Commons. The idea was to try
to avoid wasting bandwidth by providing a means for external sites to
not having to repeatedly retrieving the same picture several times.
What's the current status of this idea? Or is it already possible (and
allowed) to retrieve images from Commons via "live links"?
The experimental ForeignAPIRepo in MediaWiki 1.13 can do this. It's not
super-efficient right now as it may make a lot more API calls to Commons
than one likes, but is suitable at least for testing. :)
There's some experimental code for doing more aggressive caching,
including caching of actual thumbnails, which may be in the dev trunk
(for 1.14).
The older background info on this idea is at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons
but the actual current implementation is separate.
- -- brion
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