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: Agreed [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small>
: Agreed [[MarkDilley]] | <small>[[User talk:MarkDilley|talk]]</small>


== technical question about each wiki logo ==
==technical question about each wiki logo==
The pages that discuss an individual [[wiki]], also display that [[:Category:WikiLogo|wiki's logo]].  There are 2 possible ways of displaying that wiki's logo.  (The logo looks identical in the normal "read" view, no matter which way we do it. It is only visible in the "editbox").
The pages that discuss an individual [[wiki]], also display that [[:Category:WikiLogo|wiki's logo]].  There are 2 possible ways of displaying that wiki's logo.  (The logo looks identical in the normal "read" view, no matter which way we do it. It is only visible in the "editbox").


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** If someone finds the wiki *here*, then visits that wiki, the logo is only downloaded once (from that wiki) and stored in cache. (Rather than downloaded once from wikiindex.com and once again from that wiki).
** If someone finds the wiki *here*, then visits that wiki, the logo is only downloaded once (from that wiki) and stored in cache. (Rather than downloaded once from wikiindex.com and once again from that wiki).
** once and only once
** once and only once
** [[PersonalTelcoWiki]] does it this way
** [[Personal Telco Project]] does it this way
* Download the image from that wiki, then upload that image to the WikiIndex, then refer to the wikiindex version of that image with double-brackets.
* Download the image from that wiki, then upload that image to the WikiIndex, then refer to the wikiindex version of that image with double-brackets.
** reduces load on that distant wiki, in the case where I look at the description here, and then decide not to visit that wiki after all.
** reduces load on that distant wiki, in the case where I look at the description here, and then decide not to visit that wiki after all.