Last modified: 2014-06-26 22:29:09 UTC
For example, its suggested to use the code <a href="/wiki/File:Lu3 1.tiff"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Lu3_1.tiff" /></a> To link to another website. This isn't going to work *The link is a local link, other website is probably different domain *The image src is to a tiff file, it should be to a thumbnail as most browsers cannot read tiffs **Furthermore, for the file formats they can read, files are big, you probably don't want to insert a 200000px file on to another website (Same thing goes for the use directly inline on Wikipedia).
Thanks, Brian, excellent point. We are in the process of designing the 'Use this file' panel, which was added as a quick hack at the last minute. Your recommendations above are well thought through. I generally agree with your suggestion that we start with a thumbnail for external sites as the default script. We will discuss with our team and aim to prepare a better solution for the next release at the end of the month. To be continued ...
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/148
This has been fixed a while ago. We now show links with the current protocol though, I'm not sure that's the right thing to do...
