> MediaWiki supports a upload from URL feature, thus skipping the need to > local save. But it's disabled on WMF projects.
I suspect that will not be easy enough for many folks. For example, I suspect many people will do something like this: * Go to google and search for a picture of a tree ** http://images.google.com/images?hl=fr&q=tree&btnG=Recherche+d%27images&g bv=2 * Click on a tree that looks interesting, which would lead them somewhere like here: ** http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.freefoto.com/images/15 /19/15_19_1---Tree--Sunrise--Northumberland_web.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www .freefoto.com/preview/15-19-1%3Fffid%3D15-19-1&usg=__OFzLWf5V_u5Jq7HX_6o TYEBMQYA=&h=400&w=600&sz=129&hl=fr&start=2&sig2=Sgr35XjTpKJsBElvgz8QOQ&t bnid=rL2dCnuYhy7MAM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&ei=FCNmSb-0EaX6NNS0jZYE&prev=/imag es%3Fq%3Dtree%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dfr * Copy and paste that google URL into the wiki image upload box * Of course, we tech-oriented folks know that the above URL is not the URL of the actual image (it's the URL of a page that CONTAINS the image). To get the URL of the actual image, you of course, have to first click on the google link that says: "Display full size image", which gets you to: ** http://www.freefoto.com/images/15/19/15_19_1---Tree--Sunrise--Northumber land_web.jpg * But given that the previous google URL is largely dominated by the image of interest, I suspect (based on my observations) that most "normal" folks would use that as the URL for the image. Now, if the user could drag the image from the google URL onto the wiki page, and the wiki was able to figure out from that the URL of the image and upload it, now that would be REALLY COOL! Alain _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
