Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25246763-20161213121130

I'm quite sure that this topic was discussed many times before, like for example here Forum:Images from Wikimedia Commons.

Once the images are available at Wikimedia Commons for free, it's a waste of disk space to upload them again at Wikia.

The argument that "The Wikimedia Foundation probably does not want to pay for anything that Wikia does (such as serve up images)" is not really good, since anyone can create websites and link to Wikimedia Commons images using html code "img src=", without having to pay anything.

But yes, Wikia can share with Wikimedia a part of the image hosting costs. Because Wikia has to pay for hosting images anyways. Isn't it better to pay that money to Wikimedia and in the same time to increase the storage efficiency?

At very least, there should be a "Wikia Commons" site for the media files, and then all the wikis can use the images uploaded there. For example, if there are ten technology encyclopedias on Wikia, in ten different languages, interlinked with each other, then all those encyclopedias should be able to use the same image, instead of having to upload it ten times. For example, if you want to use an image on all the 26 Star Wars wikias, then you should upload it only once. Just thinking that I have to upload an image on all the Star Wars wikias makes me feel really inconfortable about the efficiency and even about the future of Wikia.  