[Foundation-l] Instant Commons

Robert Scott Horning robert_horning at netzero.net
Fri Mar 31 13:21:00 UTC 2006


Anthere wrote:

>ChitChat with David over whether there is a meta community ... or not... 
>is nice, but let's get back to real business for a while :-)
>
>There is a proposal on meta : InstantCommons
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InstantCommons
>
>I would be happy if some of you could have a look at it (if not at the 
>technical details, at least to the general concept - it will not take 
>you much time) and give a feedback about it (here or on meta or on irc).
>
>I am not looking for a comment by those who proposed the project... but 
>by the others ;-)
>
>Thanks for your feedback.
>
>Anthere
>Special Project Committee
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_committee
>  
>
I think Instant Commons is an incredible concept.  I don't see how it 
will directly help individual Wikimedia projects, but it is something 
that is going to be beneficial in terms of having goodwill to other 
MediaWiki website administrators and perhaps other individuals who are 
sucking bandwidth out of the Wikimedia Commons image archive.

Are there any statistics available to show how much bandwidth is going 
to serving images to non-Wikimedia projects who are using HTML markup 
links to commons images?  I'm especially talking about site mirrors (who 
may not mirror the images), but other projects as well.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning





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