koyaanisqatsi(a)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)