On Thursday 09 September 2010 06:17:02 Henne Vogelsang wrote:

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Is this allowed? Or should all images first be uploaded to the wiki?

There are no guidelines for images in articles yet, should there be?

No there shouldn't be. We don't need guidelines for _everything_...

It is allowed, but it slows down page load as image must be retrieved from another server. So it is better to upload it the wiki. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 09 September 2010 19:52:10 Marcus Rueckert wrote:

maybe that external server is even faster than the opensuse wiki? your argument is falling pretty short.

Maybe or maybe not. How it resolves in practice depends not only on file serving speeds, but also on where are servers located and how your Internet provider DNS works (mine is not a bright star). In general you don't want links to images on another sites as you have no control over it, and no signal when is changed. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org

It is very unlikely to be faster. Our data center has very high bandwidth and we are running very capable web servers. In addition, Apache is set up to serve multiple requests, including images, over a single TCP connection. Once you consider that with an external server, you have to add the overhead of a DNS lookup, a TCP handshake, and then getting the file, I would be very surprised if any image could be served faster externally. In any case, serving external images from your own site is also known as "hotlinking" and is considered to be poor form at best. The reason is that you are chewing up someone else's bandwidth and cycles by using their site in a way they did not intend for it to be used. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking.

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"Rajko M." 9/9/2010 8:17 PM >>> On Thursday 09 September 2010 19:52:10 Marcus Rueckert wrote: maybe that external server is even faster than the opensuse wiki? your argument is falling pretty short.

Maybe or maybe not. How it resolves in practice depends not only on file serving speeds, but also on where are servers located and how your Internet provider DNS works (mine is not a bright star).

In general you don't want links to images on another sites as you have no control over it, and no signal when is changed.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-09-10 02:30, Rajko M. wrote:

On Thursday 09 September 2010 06:17:02 Henne Vogelsang wrote:

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Is this allowed? Or should all images first be uploaded to the wiki?

There are no guidelines for images in articles yet, should there be?

No there shouldn't be. We don't need guidelines for _everything_...

It is allowed, but it slows down page load as image must be retrieved from another server. So it is better to upload it the wiki.

I know of several cases where the image was uploaded to an outside server simply because nobody knew how to upload that image to opensuse.org. On other cases because the image was already somewhere else, and was easier to just use it there that upload it to opensuse.org - if the license allows to upload it. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyKwuMACgkQU92UU+smfQUBVQCfZAoaDaIGo2Ux2A6ODZYPl+Sh m4UAn0gQwrBwHj+Yty8KwI31su8AzQba =iU+t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org