Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5578690-20140409222414/@comment-24376429-20140410180928

Dartmaster8 wrote: Lil' Miss Rarity wrote:

RapunzafanMSP wrote: Like I said, the image will not show up if its not uploaded onto the wiki. Not true, you can add image hosts to MediaWiki:External_image_whitelist and then the links will show up as images. wouldn't that require a request to staff? even then, there are restrictions on hotlinking. is there a way around hotlinking but still displaying an external image? Hotlinking is the act of directly displaying an image at the expense of another server. Without the whitelist there is the option of installing EIL. Be wary as this will not stop your wiki from infringing upon a copyright as you are still using the image regardless of it being uploaded to your wikia or not.