Anthere wrote:
ChitChat with David over whether there is a meta community ... or not... is nice, but let's get back to real business for a while :-)
There is a proposal on meta : InstantCommons http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InstantCommons
I would be happy if some of you could have a look at it (if not at the technical details, at least to the general concept - it will not take you much time) and give a feedback about it (here or on meta or on irc).
I am not looking for a comment by those who proposed the project... but by the others ;-)
Thanks for your feedback.
Anthere Special Project Committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee
I think Instant Commons is an incredible concept. I don't see how it will directly help individual Wikimedia projects, but it is something that is going to be beneficial in terms of having goodwill to other MediaWiki website administrators and perhaps other individuals who are sucking bandwidth out of the Wikimedia Commons image archive.
Are there any statistics available to show how much bandwidth is going to serving images to non-Wikimedia projects who are using HTML markup links to commons images? I'm especially talking about site mirrors (who may not mirror the images), but other projects as well.