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I really am not sure which way I feel on this. On the one hand, it would be cool to host/mirror some of that content, and there'd be something "shiny" about being all "official" and everything. I'm concerned though that some people might take that as a license to bully (well, we're official and you're not), as well as expose us/them to risk in that anything we do might be construed as being official (which obviously, it wouldn't be). I'm not sure if we really need anything more than fair-use material in order to satisfy the primarily goals of the wiki, but this issue comes up often enough that I thought it best that we get a feeling for how everybody wanted to go. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:54, 5 March 2007 (CST) | I really am not sure which way I feel on this. On the one hand, it would be cool to host/mirror some of that content, and there'd be something "shiny" about being all "official" and everything. I'm concerned though that some people might take that as a license to bully (well, we're official and you're not), as well as expose us/them to risk in that anything we do might be construed as being official (which obviously, it wouldn't be). I'm not sure if we really need anything more than fair-use material in order to satisfy the primarily goals of the wiki, but this issue comes up often enough that I thought it best that we get a feeling for how everybody wanted to go. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:54, 5 March 2007 (CST) | ||
Aren't there already bandwith issues? Would the offering of such large amounts of data, that are already available elsewhere, impact the performance negatively? | |||
Obtaining a license for promo pictures bigger than the tiny 400*400 they offer might be interesting. And a few hundred kBs (if we still shrink them down somewhat) of jpegs shouldn't impact the performance too bad either. But Steelviper has a point that other sites would probably then try to follow suit and get one as well. The thing BS Wiki has going for it, is that it's more than just a file dump, though. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:56, 5 March 2007 (CST) | |||
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I really am not sure which way I feel on this. On the one hand, it would be cool to host/mirror some of that content, and there'd be something "shiny" about being all "official" and everything. I'm concerned though that some people might take that as a license to bully (well, we're official and you're not), as well as expose us/them to risk in that anything we do might be construed as being official (which obviously, it wouldn't be). I'm not sure if we really need anything more than fair-use material in order to satisfy the primarily goals of the wiki, but this issue comes up often enough that I thought it best that we get a feeling for how everybody wanted to go. --Steelviper 07:54, 5 March 2007 (CST)
Aren't there already bandwith issues? Would the offering of such large amounts of data, that are already available elsewhere, impact the performance negatively?
Obtaining a license for promo pictures bigger than the tiny 400*400 they offer might be interesting. And a few hundred kBs (if we still shrink them down somewhat) of jpegs shouldn't impact the performance too bad either. But Steelviper has a point that other sites would probably then try to follow suit and get one as well. The thing BS Wiki has going for it, is that it's more than just a file dump, though. --Serenity 08:56, 5 March 2007 (CST)