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==Instant Commons like features==
Any chance Instant Commons-like features might be enabled? See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos#Using_files_from_Wikimedia_Commons_:_ForeignAPIRepo

:Interesting idea.  I was unaware of this.  Part of the reason that we don't have pictures is because I don't want to worry about the legal and vandalism problems.  However if all images first have to get on Commons we might be able to get them to do the work for us.  Of course we'd still have to worry about bandwidth getting out of hand and driving up operating costs of Encyc.  What I don't want to see happen is things get to the point where we can't operate as a non-profit or have to start something like Wikia.  

:I also rather like the idea that all of our articles are understandable without the use of images.  Apart from blind people, I think it also makes things work better on mobile devices and forces us as writers to be a little more descriptive with our language.

:It's late and nothing's happening tonight.  I'll think about it. [[User:Emperor|Emperor]] 04:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
::It is my understanding that this feature does not affect your bandwidth usage, other than the image tags in articles <nowiki>[[Image:name|thumb|right|description]]</nowiki> (about what, 50-200 bytes per image?).