Tim Starling:
This will break static HTML dumps and any other
offline usage. Can't we
just change Commons policy instead?
I'm not getting into the discussion on whether we should change the
policy. I do think that *if* we're going to delete the logos from
Commons, a viable alternative should exist to have them easily usable in
a Wikimedia context without re-uploading them to many wikis. Having a
http://upload.wikimedia.org/nonfree/
directory might be one way to do that. Static dumps, when viewed online,
should still work if they are generated using the same settings. For
offline viewing, the dumper would have to mirror the nonfree directory.
I'm happy if the few new lines of code are removed if the vote is in
favor of keeping the images on Commons, though the whitelist ability
might be useful in other contexts as well, e.g. Intranet use.
Erik