Forum:Image import

Is it possible to import an image from another wiki to central without re-uploading the image to community central. I'm wanting an image from one of the wikis as part of a userbox - but don't know if its possible to have the image display on this wiki - on wikimedia sites it was possible due to them having wikimedia commons which allowed images to display on sites such as wikipedia is this possible on central. CitadelUniversal talk  14:48, August 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think there is a licensee for another wiki or Wikimedia Project--Tama 63  14:53, August 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * or you could just put the image url there --Tama 63  14:54, August 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * There's no license that Wikimedia uses that lets them use images interwiki. On Wikia, you can put any Wikia image on a page by placing the url of the image on the page. For example,  gives:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110428195822/central/images/4/4d/Chat_v3.1.png




 * Further to Monchoman’s comment, Wikipedia specifically prohibits users from embedding images in articles using URLs. In fact, continuing to do so after repeated warnings is grounds for a block. — Spike Toronto  07:27, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikia != Wikipedia. They are two separate websites and two separate rule sets. What can't be done on Wikipedia may be doable here and is of no harm. Just because the software is alike does not mean that they are the same.--


 * You miss the point entirely. Monchoman was commenting that while we can link here at Wikia using URLs, Wikipedia does not permit it. I was saying that not only is he correct about that, but that they will penalize you for doing so, while we will not. I was not equating Wikia to Wikipedia, which was quite clear if you would read it again. In fact, if Wikia wikis had to abide by WP’s rules, there’d be practically no images on the site! I am well aware that the ruleset is distinctly different here versus there. I was, again which is crystal clear, only saying that Monchoman was correct. — Spike Toronto  08:30, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Citadel wasn't talking about Wikipedia, though - apart from mentioning commons, which is what would be used on different Wikimedia projects to use the same image. --  Random Time  08:31, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * The primary project of the WikiMedia projects is Wikipedia. The single largest user of Commons images at WMF is Wikipedia. I was commenting in regard to the sentence, “There's no license that Wikimedia uses that lets them use images interwiki.” But, I see now what you’re saying: Commons is the central storehouse for some of the images at WMF (many still remain on WP), and one can use an interwiki link to embed an image from Commons on another WMF site. So, his question was: can we interwiki link images across Wikia sites in a similar manner. Moncho’s answer was no, but you can use the full URL. I get it now. (By the way, is an image scalable when one uses the full URL?) — Spike Toronto  09:05, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * SpikeToronto unless I didn't make myself perfectly clear below, the matter was resolved, I wasn't asking to import an image from wikipedia but instead display an image from another wikia site which was done with the help of one of the users who did the Linux userbox for me, and I thought all comments had to be shown after someone elses comment NOT before. CitadelUniversal talk   07:41, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * An indent up is considered a reply to the previous comment, so sometimes people reply above an earlier comment for that reason --  Random Time  08:06, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * RandomTime hit the nail on the head! An indent higher up means that the speaker is neither replying to nor commenting on anything that follows below. My comment was very narrowly focussed on one thing that Monchoman had said. In fact, the comment was made with zero regard for your original query since it did not relate to your original query. — Spike Toronto  08:30, August 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * This problem has been resolved on chat. CitadelUniversal talk  15:52, August 4, 2011 (UTC)