[Commons-l] Where to report hotlinking?

[Delphine Ménard]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:00, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  2009/9/16 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
>> Yes, I was thinking that. I suppose hotlinking is done through the
>> "raw" url, which means access to the licence page is simply not
>> happening. Not a problem if people actually credit the authors/respect
>> the licence by adding the necessary info on their website. Not too
>> cool if they don't.
> Indeed. Hotlink just means that you put the URL of an external source
> into the "src" attribute of an <img> tag, e.g.
>
> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Titan-crystal_bar.JPG/300px-Titan-crystal_bar.JPG"
> />
>
> Because it's not the server of the website that loads this url, but
> the users browser it is a bit difficult to see if an image is actually
> hotlinked, although it can be prevented.

I don't think Wikimedia should prevent it though, for all the reasons
mentionned earlier in this thread, just that we want to make sure
people use the right licensing terms. I haven't read all the links, so
maybe all is explained on meta or Commons :)

Delphine
(lazy)

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