What about a new tag that allows inclusion of images from other wikipedias? This would save us a lot of effort to download and re-upload say 200 CIA factbook maps, 200 country flags and the like (which is not fun to do especially with current occasionally very slow response times).
Something like [[image:en:Image_US_flagmedium.png]]
Erik Zachte
"Erik Zachte" e.p.zachte@chello.nl writes:
What about a new tag that allows inclusion of images from other wikipedias? This would save us a lot of effort to download and re-upload say 200 CIA factbook maps, 200 country flags and the like (which is not fun to do especially with current occasionally very slow response times).
No, it's no fun at all, but in the German wikipedia we decided to do exactly this (Scipius was so nice to mail me the flags in a zip-file). Reasons: there is no possibility to control whether pictures are in use in other wikipedias. Pictures may be changed or deleted without a possibility to say: hey stop, we still need this picture!
BTW: this is a subject which is definitely of concern for the international list. Or is wikipedia-l the international list now?
greetings, elian
elian wrote in part:
Erik Zachte wrote:
What about a new tag that allows inclusion of images from other wikipedias? This would save us a lot of effort to download and re-upload say 200 CIA factbook maps, 200 country flags and the like (which is not fun to do especially with current occasionally very slow response times).
No, it's no fun at all, but in the German wikipedia we decided to do exactly this (Scipius was so nice to mail me the flags in a zip-file). Reasons: there is no possibility to control whether pictures are in use in other wikipedias. Pictures may be changed or deleted without a possibility to say: hey stop, we still need this picture!
Thus we need, say, the [[fr:]] image page to look at the [[nl:]] image page when it says whether the picture is being used.
Something like [[image:en:Image_US_flagmedium.png]]
It should be [[en:image:Image_US_flagmedium.png]], but otherwise you're right.
BTW: this is a subject which is definitely of concern for the international list. Or is wikipedia-l the international list now?
Not yet, not yet ....
-- Toby
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