Last modified: 2011-11-30 00:07:09 UTC

Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Wikimedia migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator. Bug reports are handled in Wikimedia Phabricator.
This static website is read-only and for historical purposes. It is not possible to log in and except for displaying bug reports and their history, links might be broken. See T12784, the corresponding Phabricator task for complete and up-to-date bug report information.
First Last Prev Next    This bug is not in your last search results.
Bug 10784 - Feature request: visible or metadata watermarking of hotlinked files
Feature request: visible or metadata watermarking of hotlinked files
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency tree / graph
 
Reported: 2007-08-02 23:02 UTC by seahen123
Modified: 2011-11-30 00:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Description seahen123 2007-08-02 23:02:25 UTC 
When a non-Wikimedia site places an image from a Wikimedia site directly on one of their pages, users likely won't know that it comes from Wikipedia or the Commons or who originally created the image. They might think it was created by the linking site's own staff or comes from a commercial stock-image collection. It also means bandwidth gets used up without bringing in any name recognition or visibility for the Edit This Page links. Many wikis would probably at least like to add the description-page URL to the file's metadata. I think wiki server roots should be able to choose what to do in this situation:

    * Do nothing.
    * Add a metadata watermark where possible, otherwise do nothing.
    * Add a metadata watermark where possible, otherwise add a visible/audible watermark.
    * Add a visible/audible watermark.
    * Ban hotlinking. A file cannot be downloaded with a referrer other than the hosting site (and possibly a white list of other sites).
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2007-08-08 17:33:12 UTC 
Not currently planning to do this.
Comment 2 Diederik van Liere 2011-11-30 00:05:10 UTC 
WONTFIX, we allow hotlinking.
Comment 3 Krinkle 2011-11-30 00:07:09 UTC 
(moving to Wikimedia component)
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
First Last Prev Next    This bug is not in your last search results.

Navigation
Links