Thread:Talk:Main Page/Images and licensing

Check out Special:ListFiles. Most of those fall under full copyright. I don't care personally, since we can just mark them up as such in the file description, but I have this other issue that I would like to solve: datadumps. I would like to make monthly or quarterly datadumps of the site, all the pages and the files. I intend to upload them to the Internet Archive.

Here is what I am thinking as a possible solution: allowing autoconfirmed folks (those who have registered an email address with the site) to link to external images. Then you can link to those things from elsewhere (I suggest putting them in your blog, so you don't use someone else's bandwidth), and they aren't in dumps for this wiki. Sound good? I will of course help folks learn the wikitext for that.