As I understand, there are two ways to use an image from another language-wikipedia.
One is to download it (say, from Meta) and upload (say, to Japanese).
The other is to use the URL of the image. like this: http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/c/c0/Japan_global_locator_closeup.png
Is one way more recommended than the other? Is there any discussion of sharing or not sharing images across language-wikis? I see that the first takes more storage capacity, while the latter may cause more burden on the server when a page is downloaded (though I'm not sure).
Thanks for help,
Tomos
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(Tomos at Wikipedia wiki_tomos@hotmail.com): As I understand, there are two ways to use an image from another language-wikipedia... Is one way more recommended than the other?
Images should not be shared among Wikipedias. it is our goal to have each Wikipedia be complete and self-contained, except for links to the Internet at large. Disk space is cheap--if the same image appears in 10 wikis, then it should be uploaded 10 times and linked locally in each. That way, when we make a backup of each wiki, each backup contains the whole content.
--- Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com wrote:
(Tomos at Wikipedia wiki_tomos@hotmail.com): As I understand, there are two ways to use an
image from
another language-wikipedia... Is one way more recommended than the other?
Images should not be shared among Wikipedias. it is our goal to have each Wikipedia be complete and self-contained, except for links to the Internet at large. Disk space is cheap--if the same image appears in 10 wikis, then it should be uploaded 10 times and linked locally in each. That way, when we make a backup of each wiki, each backup contains the whole content.
Perhaps Would it be thinkable then, that when we upload an image, on whatever wikipedia, we have a list provided with the opportunity to add the other wikipedia to which we want to add the image at the same time. Somehow, a common place for upload ? With as many description areas as languages chosen. Hence, we would have separate space, but common upload facility ?
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On 17-05-2003, Anthere wrote thusly :
--- Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com wrote:
(Tomos at Wikipedia wiki_tomos@hotmail.com): As I understand, there are two ways to use an
image from
another language-wikipedia... Is one way more recommended than the other?
Images should not be shared among Wikipedias. it is our goal to have each Wikipedia be complete and self-contained, except for links to the Internet at large. Disk space is cheap--if the same image appears in 10 wikis, then it should be uploaded 10 times and linked locally in each. That way, when we make a backup of each wiki, each backup contains the whole content.
Perhaps Would it be thinkable then, that when we upload an image, on whatever wikipedia, we have a list provided with the opportunity to add the other wikipedia to which we want to add the image at the same time. Somehow, a common place for upload ? With as many description areas as languages chosen. Hence, we would have separate space, but common upload facility ?
IMO, a very good idea.
Another helpful feature would be image upload announce mailing list that automaticly sends posts from about new image upload from all Wikipedias. Interested Wikipedians subscribed to the list could more easily keep track of newly arrived resources and improve resource sharing in this way.
Aggregated recent image upload page is another possibility.
Regards, Kpjas.
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