Re: in line linking

Andre Engels wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Anthere wrote:
> 
> 
>>For these 4 reasons, I suggested that inline linking
>>be forbidden on all wikipedias, reducing our
>>liability, and increasing the quality of information
>>provided to the end user. I think this is important.
> 
> 
> I think we should not be doing this unless we have first checked which
> images linked inline are currently existing in the various wikipedias,
> and where possible resolve them. I know that on nl: at least until recently
> there were some inline links to en: or meta:, created when we were at phase
> 1, and could not upload our own. There's also some early image references
> that use inline linking to our own images (by people who apparently did not
> know the correct syntax). I'm almost certain that similar cases hold on
> other wikipedias. Thus, if at all possible, I would like to find all current
> inline images, and get time to repair or remove them, before this is
> implemented.
> 
> Andre Engels
> 

It doesn't take much time to remedy to this; anthere and I did this
in a few hours a few weeks ago, there was about 140 such images.

-- Looxix