Last modified: 2014-03-22 08:26:28 UTC
Please allow using upload by URL for images available through upload.wikimedia.org This requires: 1) Adding upload.wikimedia.org to the wgCopyUploadsDomains whitelist 2) Config the upload by url request proxy to allow requests to upload.wikimedia.org
Discussion links: permalink: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=119580266#Upload_by_url_userright_for_internal_Wikimedia_files ongoing: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Upload_by_url_userright_for_internal_Wikimedia_files If you want to see an RfC to implement that, let me know.
* If you want to see an RfC supporting implementation of that, let me know.
(In reply to Rainer Rillke @commons.wikimedia from comment #2) > * If you want to see an RfC supporting implementation of that, let me know. Yes, please.
(In reply to Tomasz W. Kozlowski from comment #3) > Yes, please. If no one else beats me, I have time, Friday, MAR 28 next week, to prepare an RfC.
I'm sure this is a dupe... And I seem to recall there being a suggestion from ops to not want to do this, in favour of a better server seide copy thing
(In reply to Sam Reed (reedy) from comment #5) > I'm sure this is a dupe... > > And I seem to recall there being a suggestion from ops to not want to do > this, in favour of a better server seide copy thing Yep, Faidon rejected this request in the past. Trouble is, no-one is interested in writing a "better server side copy thing"... I was also troubled by Faidon's comment at bug 42473 comment 15: > Moreover, copying files internally seems wrong to me in general. It's > probably okay if it's a limited use case, but if it's something that's going > to get popular He is seemingly unaware how popular this is already: hundreds of thousands of files have been copied across to Commons over the years. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42473 ***
