User talk:KrytenKoro/Archive 12

Blocking Notice

I am not allowed to block or ban editors unless they are grossly vandalizing pages, such as with swearwords or vulgarities. Please do not ask me to block other editors over content disputes, because I will not do so.

Image Notice

Photobucket is a site geared toward hosting images that lets you upload your images to your own account. Like the wiki, it requires little personal information to set up an account, but unlike the wiki, the images are your own (unlike on the wiki, where posting them means you give up all rights to claim ownership), and can only be viewed if you want them to be. Also, as photobucket is an image server, hosting the images there does not drain the wiki's own data space and bandwidth so much as would here.

Imageshack is a similar image server, with the added bonus of not requiring an account if you don't want one. While you can sign up for a personal account much like Photobucket, you can also upload an image as an anonymous user. Imageshack will store the image and give you the url and html embedding information for the image, allowing you to anonymously upload images to Imageshack and then post them elsewhere (like on the wiki), as an external link.

The primary advantages of using external servers are:
 * 1) They allow you to retain ownership of your images - any images which remain here now belong to anyone who wants them.
 * 2) They reduce the load on the wiki's own servers, making it faster and reducing the amount of overloads we get.
 * 3) They allow you to use the image's on your own websites or on forums, instead of being restricted to wiki.

Only images that are important to the main articles (ie, images created by SE or Disney) should be uploaded to the wiki, as this allows them to load slightly quicker, making it easier to browse the wiki for information. Due to the large amount of textboxes used on the talk pages, images used as a textbox avatar (not as a userpage avatar) should also be uploaded, to reduce the load time on talk pages. However, the slightly slower load time for user pages with large fan art galleries is very much compensated for by the overall faster load time for the entire wiki if those images are externally hosted; thus, "user art" should be externally hosted. Glorious  CHAOS!  22:09, 20 July 2009 (UTC)