On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:21:08 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'd like to ask that this block on worldhistory be dropped immediately, as David has a point here, and he's being very courteous to come here and chat about it.
Worldhistory is not blocked anymore.
In my personal opinion spidering the images and hosting them locally isn't too much to ask for if the sites are commercial. It saves a lot of bandwith as they are only downloaded once, and it's really not hard to do with wget or similar. If this is done in off-peak hours, even better.
Previous discussions on this that i found via google: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikilegal-l/2004-January/000220.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copies_of_Wikipedia_content_(low_degr...)
If the concensus is against blocking i'll switch it off of course.
Cheers