On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, OQ overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
You're talking about hotlinking, right? Looking at the page source of channelsurfing.net, they're clearly hotlinking quite a bit. But as David notes, we generally encourage our content to be spread and used.
I particularly enjoyed the part that their header is hotlinked and hosted on commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cslogo.gif
Seems like thats definitively using commons as their image host.
I think that's an abuse of Commons, and someone (OQ?) seems to have started a deletion request for that (also, you might want to grab and AFD nominate the other header that the same account uploaded, for another part of the site...).
If they're linking to images we legitimately host and which meet our image guidelines, are used in WP or other WMF projects, etc, then ... Shrug. I didn't realize we were ok with hotlinking like that, but if that's the published policy, that's the published policy.