[Mediawiki-l] Re: External Images with thumb

Mon Dec 12 18:55:29 UTC 2005

> From: Martin Baumann <mailsgetlost at web.de>
>
> is there a way to use external image links with a thumb preview?

You mean as in "goatse.cx"? :-)

I think it is generally agreed that allowing arbitrary external  
images has tons of security and copyright issues.

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and to use it wastefully until it’s all gone and then he simply moves  
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The whole white race is a monster who is always hungry and what he  
eats is land. — Chiksika, elder brother of Tecumseh, March 19, 1779
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