Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4059089-20140608150634/@comment-1142365-20140610091155

Iynque wrote: Yes, the options icon is broken (because it's an external link; you have to use images hosted by Wikia or they won't display on Wikia).

This is not true, images that are loaded with CSS should load absolutely fine no matter where they are linked from (unless there are permissions errors from the source website).

Images from external sites other than Wikia can be used in articles too as seen on MediaWiki:External image whitelist. This can be customised on your own wiki to allow images from other sites to be loaded on articles too.