Re: Intlwiki-l Inline 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

Of course André !


> 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.

So many ?
Then you probably took care of the majority :-)

ant

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