koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
Could we please disallow offsite images?
*Using them steals bandwidth & is rude to the people who have to pay for the other site *They're useful for vandals (goatse.cx) *Thanks to e.g. doubleclick, some people run programs that kill offsite images automatically (e.g. Proxomitron for Windows boxes)
Mozilla has an option for this built in, as well as a handy "block images from this server" option on the context menu for any image.
*if not killed automatically, they can cause a page not to finish loading when it would otherwise (doubleclick has a problem? well just sit there a few minutes waiting for hotmail to come up)
I'm running proxomitron now; most of the country articles have killed images; the goatse image is thankfully killed also.
Since this has been discussed and generally approved of previously, I'm going to go ahead and disable them. There are probably still some legitimate off-site images floating around; I'll make a list for replacements.
(I'm only going to do this for the English wiki for now; some of the others are probably still using many external images.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)