MediaWiki talk:External image whitelist

Statcounter
Hello!

jedi.wikia.com Thank you for your time. I would like to insert an image at the bottom of the title page for the purpose of tracking unique visitors to the website and page views.

http://c41.statcounter.com/3791996/0/072333b4/0/

is the URL and I have it at the bottom of the page. The image that is created is only created for this use and so there should not be a copyright problem. Thank you, again, for your time. :D

--Trepe 01:02, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Non-Profit Organizations and Compensory Donations Links
We are currently working with non-profit organizations in generating support for our community; (SuperWikia) and we have already established relations with a notable web services group at Amazon.com.

The issue: The many different tools and links available at Amazon.com (Amazon Associates, AWS, etc.) are not compatible with wikitext and other MediaWikia applications.

The solution: By adding a non-profit compensory donation list to the whitelist, you may;
 * 1) generate proceeds for the numerous Jimmy Wales donation drives
 * 2) create new retention and incentive programs for authors/contributors
 * 3) establish a stronger sysop/administrator base by pooling resources for voter benefits
 * 4) proliferate the educational component of the organization by endorsing non-profit events
 * 5) recieve government support and tax incentives for hosting tax exempt organizations
 * 6) enforce Wikia's policy on open source publishing by restricting/moderating commercial accounts

and many other areas which are still in development.

For more information on Amazon and their many programs for fund raising, contact myself at super.wikia.com or go direct to http://aws.amazon.com Thanks a bunch a good luck Mr. Wales! Habatchii 05:07, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

flickr?
Can we have flickr.com in this list? --Ans 11:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but no. Flickr has requested that hotlinking not be allowed. You can use Special:ImportFreeImages to find and translode free images directly from flickr to your wiki. --Uberfuzzy 13:26, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

share images bewteen english and chinese versions of the same wikia
hi there, I am the admin for gintama.wikia.com. I recently started the chinese version at zh.yinhun.wikia.com with the intention that the content, design, layout etc would be identical to the english version, save for the language in the content. However, I face some problems in sharing the images. Since the images that zh.yinhun is using are ported over from the english gintama, I am unable to get them to resize properly, even though they are using the exact same template as the english version (refer to main page of both sites). Is there a way for the chinese version to re-size the english-version images from the chinese site's end? I really don't see any point in re-uploading more than 500 images, they will all be identical. thanks Gin-san (Talk) 17:22, January 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Image sharing can be enabled. Please send any requests for wiki configuration changes to staff using special:contact. Angela (talk) 00:56, January 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * thanks, message sent Gin-san (Talk) 12:56, January 19, 2010 (UTC)

About using commons.wikimedia.org images in lt.biologija.wikia.com
Hi, I'm administrator of lt.biologija.wikia.com. We will like using commons.wikimedia.org, *.wikipedia.org images in our wiki in as localy uploaded images (With same wiki syntax). May by this is possible? Thanks. Vpovilaitis 06:12, January 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've set this up. You can see an example on my user page. It's best to use special:contact for configuration requests as this page is not always checked regularly. Angela (talk) 06:11, January 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Vpovilaitis 06:24, January 28, 2010 (UTC)

Online Status
Hello, I wish to have a website added to allow users to show their online status on their userpage. The website is http://www.imstatuscheck.com/ and allows hotlinking. It works with many services such as IAM, ICQ, GTalk, MySpace and MSN. Manyman 06:27, April 5, 2010 (UTC)

Tinypics?
Could tinypic.com be added to the list for use on the El Goonish Shive Wiki: specifically, for the character test images? --Brovie    talk 05:07, May 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * You can actually create a local whitelist for just that wiki, by creating this same page name at that wiki. --Uberfuzzy 05:58, May 11, 2010 (UTC)

About using commons.wikimedia.org images in lt.enciklopedija.wikia.com
Hi, I'm administrator of lt.enciklopedija.wikia.com. We will like using commons.wikimedia.org, *.wikipedia.org images in our wiki in as localy uploaded images (With same wiki syntax). May by this is possible? -- 13:41, January 12, 2012 (UTC)

Security
You guys really need to tighten up the regex here. Notice how this user was able to embed an image without it being on the intended whitelist, just by using some url that matches your generous regex. I'm sure glad that was just a tracking pixel, and not some sick, twisted child pornography!

I'm pretty sure this is a global message, but if not, at least someone from wikia will probably see this. moluɐɯ 21:41, December 8, 2015 (UTC)


 * That could, technically, be true about any regex on the whitelist. I have added an appending  to that particular one to prevent that mis-use in the future. Rappy 22:05, December 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * http://somedirtysite.com/image_of_children.png#bypassregex=http://alexa.com/o.png moluɐɯ 22:17, December 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * I could do without the tongue-in-cheekiness.

Rappy [17:21] Oh no! http://timgur.com/ bypasses RSW's external image whitelist! Panic!

What does he want me to do? Completely kill every other URL? This has been in place since 2005 and just ​*now*​ been used improperly.
 * You can't just let this kind of shit slide by, because that's how people get into places they shouldn't be.
 * http://www.dailydot.com/technology/imgur-4chan-8chan-exploit/
 * Be snarky all you want on my RSW talk page, but the fact that you're not taking this insecurity more seriously is embarrassing. Reconsider your job title. moluɐɯ 22:25, December 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * Reminder: the login form is still at the top of every page. Gaz Talk 22:27, December 8, 2015 (UTC)