Forum:Userbox images

@Lego - Most of the images on the Photobucket aren't resized. I would fully support all of this off wiki hosting if we could find a decent off-site image host. 17:24, 15 March 2011 (EDT)
 * Yeah, I completely forgot about the resizing.
 * EDIT: A thought: why don't we use the wikia-wiki for offsite hosting? Didn't Kryten demonstrate a way to host and resize other wiki images? This way, we won't have to reupload everything. The only problem I see is getting permission. And the morality behind it. -- 20:16, 15 March 2011 (EDT)

BRILLIANT IDEA. Although it might be a little immoral, we could do something similar. Someday, when we actually start SEIWA, we could have an image wiki, similarly to how Wikimedia Commons was basically created to be an image hosting site for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. 22:21, 15 March 2011 (EDT)
 * Bulbapedia has one of those, I believe. -- 22:28, 15 March 2011 (EDT)

BUT we still would not be able to link= or put captions on them.

Also, @DTN, this gets us closer to being done? 16:26, 20 March 2011 (EDT)
 * We don't need links or captions in Userboxes. -- 18:03, 20 March 2011 (EDT)


 * facepalm* Sorry, I was thinking of other images...   22:36, 22 March 2011 (EDT)

We can't let this die out--it's becoming a problem in auditing. For example, while I was auditing images, I had to leave a ton of images unchecked because we hadn't decided on this. While there is certainly more effort required in resizing the images off-wiki, there is also the risk of exceeding Photobucket's bandwidth limit. We could try Lego/Kryten's idea of using the KHWikia URL's, though if they ever change their image names, we have to as well. Additionally, we could make this simple as say that if a user wants to use a userbox, it's their own responsibility to fix the image until we complete the syncing.

This is urgent, so I'm willing to just go into a staff election-style voting, with justification and discussion of course, if everyone is ready. -- 18:54, 2 April 2011 (EDT)
 * I say just get a tinypic account, they don't have a bandwidth limit. 19:05, 2 April 2011 (EDT)
 * I second Erry's notion. I'll have some time soon, so I can resize a lot of the userbox images that don't require a white background (as I can't make them transparent).   22:12, 3 April 2011 (EDT)