Editing Trustroots Wiki:Community portal (section)

== Flagcounter or: do we want to enable external images? ==
For use a visit counter (FlagCounter), how integrate the FLAGCOUNTER Code in a page CouchWiki ?
Here is my code given by FlagCounter :
<pre><a href="http://info.flagcounter.com/s7xP">
<img src="http://s10.flagcounter.com/count/s7xP/bg_FFFFFF/txt_000000/border_CCCCCC/columns_6/maxflags_30/viewers_0/labels_0/pageviews_0/flags_0/" alt="Flag Counter" border="0"></a></pre>

This code never runs in CouchWiki   !!!!
Thanks for your replies (bernard9277@hotmail.fr) or BERNARD9277 on CS. [[User:ROBERT48]]

:I could enable [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages the AllowExternalImages setting] to enable this but let's get the opinion of some more couchwiki editors as there is a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages#Why_disallow_external_images.3F valid reason for not allowing external images].  (Note that you can sign messages on talk pages with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>.) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 16:05, 9 March 2013 (CET)

::I strongly disagree with external pictures, especially if it's used as a snooping tool like here. A free and open projekt should not allow user snooping from third parties. (A simple access counter is at the bottom of couchwiki pages anyway.)[[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 16:41, 9 March 2013 (CET)

::I agree with the reasoning for disallowing external images. I always though these flag counters were a bit dodgy. I really don't think it is necessary. --[[User:Ashuri|Ashuri]] ([[User talk:Ashuri|talk]]) 16:06, 10 March 2013 (CET)

::OK Midsch, I'm agree with you, but for us, this counter is not a snooping tool, but only for know if our city arouses an interest by presentation that's made, that's all  !![[User:ROBERT48|ROBERT48]] ([[User talk:ROBERT48|talk]]) 18:31, 9 March 2013 (CET)

:::Well, if you're not paying for it you're the product. I'm sure this flagcounter company is making money by tracking people. But with <tt>$wgAllowExternalImagesFrom</tt> (which I just found now) we could allow this flagcounter and just this flagcounter. I'm personally okay with that, and people who care about privacy can use ghostery or other privacy plugins to block it. Midsch, what do you say? [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 19:54, 9 March 2013 (CET)

::::Sorry for the late replay, I've had some login-issues here. But so was some time to think about it. I think we shouldn't open pandoras box and don't use third part pics and scripts. It is a snooping tool, if not for you, definetely for the flag counter company. That's why it's free. And honestly I can't see an use for this special one anyway: You already have a build-in counter on each page to see if people are accessing it, what's the benefit of (mostly wrong) ip-location guessing and nationalist flags? (BTW: I'd like to get rid of national flags in the country headers as well, but they've been easy to get and use when I and several others tried to get some structure here ...) [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 20:24, 13 March 2013 (CET)