If someone on the WikiMedia project provided code for caching images remotely that could be used by other sites, that would solve the problem to a great extent...
The algorithm could be as simple as 1) Give me a list of all images that were updated in the last N hours 2) download them.
This might be hard, but it doesn't seem so given the capabilities I think already exist in WikiMedia.
-Kelly
At 11:28 AM 3/12/2004, you wrote:
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
Gabriel Wicke
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